You will never find happiness
Everyone wants to be happy, right? Happy means something different to everyone, but whatever it means, that’s what we all want. That’s what we’re all looking for.
The trouble is, it seems like it’s hard to find.
What is the path to happiness?
Is it work? Is it passion?
Do we just keep pushing? One more project, one more year. Then we’ll be happy?
I know plenty of people that have found this is not the case. After twenty or so years pushing, working at the top of their game, they’ve realised they don’t even like their game. All this effort and they didn’t find happy. Now they’ve spent so long getting here, what else can they do?
Did these people get it wrong? Did they follow the wrong path? Choose the wrong passion? Is there another thing that would have actually gotten them to happiness?
Well, no, I don’t think so. I don’t think you can ever find happiness.
That’s because happiness has to start here, not over there. Happiness is the beginning, not the end. It is the cause, not the effect.
Working hard and following your passion does not lead to happiness because happiness does not come after you find your thing. Rather, you find your thing after you find happiness.
In fact I would say, no one is happy because they found their thing. They found their thing because they were happy.
It’s a simple twist. Not easy, mind you, but simple.
If you start with optimism, even if you’re just faking it, you will find something good. It’s possible to choose, no matter what, to see the positive, to be happy. You can simply decide.
So stop looking.
You will never find happiness, but you can choose it.
