Happiness is a Career

We make our own happiness. True!

By nature, we cling to things. We easily get attached to people, material things, experience, etc. if we feel that our connection is so perfect and vibrant, we experience extreme glee. However,once that attachment or bond doesn’t go the way we wanted it to be, we easily get frustrated, depressed, sad, and sometimes we react socially unacceptable.

Our happiness doesn’t depend on other people, or anything.

We may be overjoyed with the people we meet, but it doesn’t mean that we owe our happiness to anyone. We may always have that sensation of being elated every time when being with them but, it is us who have the decision to be happy around them. It’s us and not them to decide for our happiness.

Otherwise, we may have met challenging people that give us frustration and hard time but it doesn’t mean that we can’t be happy anymore. They are just there to strengthen our relationship with our self, not to anyone but to our self.

Everything starts within us. As they always say, “look at the brighter picture”, we will just then consider these challenging people as springboard to a better us. Somehow they have helped us develop more our patience, understanding, unconditional love and so on. By then, we won’t have to worry in dealing with those sorts of fellas.

Happiness is our choice to make, not from others. We have different sense of happiness. My happiness may not be happiness for you. Who cares, as long as we don’t hurt anyone then it won’t matter. Right? I am happy when I get to sleep 8 hours a day. Others consider it a waste of time sleeping more than 6 hours. That’s how I chose to be happy, this is my preference.. That’s my contentment, I am happy to be able to sleep my 8 hours. Having that long rest for me will give me lasting joy. Not just for a day, but for the coming days as i gave enough time for my cells to regenerate. =) When we are convient, we are pleased. And so we are blissful.

Money, influence and luxury are not tantamount with happiness. Yet, we are aware - it doesn’t mean we live in delight if we don’t have them. But it also doesn’t mean we are completely happy if we do have them- that they don’t bring us lasting happiness on their own. They are all impermanent.