The word 'happiness' is quite misinterpreted.
It is often referred to the idealistic goals that the society set up for us. When asked, people often reply that they will be happy when they have a certain amount of money, property, assets, fame, friends or family and in this process, they fail to realize that you need nothing but yourself to be happy.
As cliche it sounds, you have to create happiness yourself.
When we make these assumptions that we will be happy after we achieve something, it restricts us to not enjoy the current moment because we are busy creating the ideal world that will never satisfy our greed.
One of the greatest thing that I learned during this phase was how important it is to live in the present moment, something we refer to as 'mindfulness' and how life provides us with numerous opportunities where we should make a choice considering our happiness as a factor.
We say that decision making is tough and yet we do it all the time no matter how big or small it is without even paying attention. From the choice of getting up from your bed and going to work in the morning to doing the chores in your everyday life, you do not even realize the number of if-else statements your brain executes (hehe, sorry for the geek reference).
Choosing what to wear, where to hang out or the bigger things like planning to start a family or working at your job, we have to make decisions. Sometimes we do it on our will, sometimes we let fate decide the future for us and the rest of the times, we let fear conquer us.
Fear paralyzes us and it does rightly so because we allow it to. When you tell your mind that the fear can go and find someone else, you'll end up living the life you always envisioned and that my dear friend is the greatest gift you can give to yourself.
This changed my entire perspective and I started making decisions with mindfulness, choosing decisions that will make me happy in the current moment...
...and this has made all the difference.
I want you to ask yourself what makes you happy and if you're doing a lot of it?
If not, let this be your wake-up call.
As always, I would love to hear your views on the same :)
Related: Happiness comes in small packages
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