Happiness is within reach. Sounds like a theory doesn’t it? In today’s hyper-complicated world, where everyone keeps flushing competition in our faces, and demands hustling just a bit more rigorously, it is no surprise that happiness seems distant. But does it have to be that way?
Does it make your mind wander and your heart numb as you question how travel influencers seem to be repeatedly finding happiness while exploring the world? How does that one content creator get to dance all day every day, and smile their way throughout the same time that you spend slogging over a computer at a job you hate?
It is natural to wonder, and even more natural to chase the happiness which has now become a distant concept to you. But as someone who’s found happiness, then lost it, and then found it all over again, I can tell you confidently that happiness is better felt than found.
Happiness is better a choice than a circumstance. Happiness is better a journey than a destination. Happiness is better independent than dependent. Happiness is better felt from within than sought outside.
As a young 24-year-old who’s not had a definitive career path to walk on, happiness had become this distant ambitious goal that I just didn’t deserve until I put in the work. “You can’t be happy while your career remains this messy. You can’t be happy until you figure out what you want to do. You can’t be happy until you achieve something substantial. You can’t be happy until you have a reason enough.”
I believed, to my very core, that a struggling 20-something with zero clarity does not deserve to be happy. Until I just said, “I’m gonna be happy today, and I don’t need a victory badge to ‘allow’ me to smile.” Until I danced. Until I began working out. Until I began smiling intentionally. I found happiness in small things, and I don’t need anything else to validate my happiness anymore.
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