How often do you hear people say "I will be happy when ..."
such as "When I get that thing, I will be happy," "I will
be happy when I pass the exam" and "I would be happy
if I had more money". I have heard these things before
and I am sure that I will hear them again.
Many people want to believe that finding happiness is all
about finding or getting something that they want.
However, not many people have ever found long-term
happiness by achieving a goal. There will always be another
thing that they want. There will always be another exam or
another dollar.
To break this vicious cycle, we must find our happiness
somewhere else —within ourselves. In other words, happiness
is completely an inside job. The key to finding happiness is to
understand that happiness is a choice rather than the result
of an experience. We have been given everything
We need to be happy. Allow yourself to choose happiness.
If life was perfect, would you be happy? Life is perfect because
we create it with our choices. Since we can create life, we can
create happiness and choose how much better our lives can get!
Only when we can accept that life is perfect as it is, and that our
lives are the sum total of everything that has happened up to
this moment, can we accept the joy and the happiness we deserve.