How To Find Happiness - Chances are that if you’re trying to figure out how to find happiness, you probably haven’t found it yet. Happiness is such a simple concept, yet the process of achieving can be so difficult and complex. We might roll our eyes when we hear clichés like “money can’t buy happiness,” but everyone knows that it’s so true. And those who don’t believe that eventually come around when they’ve hit the jackpot but still feel like something’s missing. So if money isn’t the way to do it, what is? How do you go about finding true happiness?
You might have heard that “you don’t find happiness, happiness finds you.” This is sort of true. It’s false in that you can’t just sit around and wait for happiness to appear. Complacency won’t get you anywhere because you’ll just be sitting on your bottom the whole time. At the same time, happiness isn’t necessarily something you search for and find. Happiness comes to you in the process of doing what’s right for you and what you love, so you should stop trying to look for it. This doesn’t mean giving up happiness altogether. It means that you should be focusing on how to bring happiness rather than how to find happiness. It’s kind of like a bird (though was it hope that was the thing with feathers?) because you can run after one as much as you want but you’ll never be able to snatch one in your hands. But put up a bird feeder and the bird will come to you.
This is another cliché, but you really do feel happy when you make others happy. Some people think this is false happiness because you feel somewhat selfish gratification from having helped someone else rather than feeling truly, selflessly happy, but there’s nothing wrong with deriving pleasure out of bringing happiness to others as long as that’s not the only motive behind it—because when you help others purely out of self gain, you’re looking for happiness again instead of bringing it to yourself.
After reading this, chances are you still don’t feel like you don’t know how to find happiness, but did you really think happiness could be achieved through something as simple as reading a short article? Again, that’s something you need to figure out for yourself, and though you don’t know what you to, hopefully now you might understand better why happiness still eludes your grasp.
