Ok, now to be honest you did not need more than 1 second to answer that question let alone 2 minutes. The only person, thing, or action that truly “makes” you happy is you. Regardless of what you listed on your “make me happy” list, it all boils down to you. The things that you perceive to make you happy, only make you feel happiness because it is at those points in time that you allow yourself to be happy.
Sadly we no longer acquire things to live as we did in the cave man days, now we live to acquire. Think for a moment about the stupid things you tell yourself about happiness. “Oh, I will be so happy when I get that car”, “Oh, when I retire I will be so happy”, “As soon as I make $100,000 I will be so happy”. Happiness is always there, like a caged animal in your mind. The moments that you allow yourself to be happy, are the only moments that you unlock the cage and let happiness run free. No sooner than happiness is set free, we come up with more things to be done in order for happiness to once again be released from the cages of our minds.
Look at all of the things that you currently have in your life. I am guessing that at one time or another you had thought to yourself, when I get this I will be happy. Well, you got it and………….
Everything that we as people do boils down to a level of happiness that we would like to achieve. We delay our happiness until certain moments arrive that we allow ourselves to be happy. The problem is when we get to those moments of arrival, the happiness is very short lived. Once that moment of finally arrives; we don’t truly enjoy the happiness that we thought we would. Instead we begin thinking of bigger better things to delay our happiness, and the cycle continues on and on and on.
I encourage you, go to your cage and throw the lock away. Let your happiness run free until you find something worthy of caging it again. This world of caging happiness until we have a reason to set it free is a very miserable place.
