For the past weeks, I’ve been getting
messages from my friends. And I’m not sure why they’re talking about the same
topic (FYI, they don’t know each other and they’ve never met each other before).
They’re asking the same question to me, “How
to be happy?”
As much as I want them to read my blog post
about happiness,
I’ll just be a good friend and answer as wise (or witty) as I could possibly
can (which most of the time, I can’t). And it’s definitely not the right time
to discuss the Law of attractions with them either.
I think I can almost conclude that most
people feel bored with their lives. I believe most of you are tired of working
from 8 to 5. Some of you feel that you just want to give up with your
relationships. Another group of you might want to pack your bags and leave this
planet, start a new life, if you only could. (That would be quite expensive
though, because the journey to Mars needs a lot of money, which only means you
need to work really F*cking harder for that). So let’s skip the latter option,
shall we?
Most of us have different lifestyles,
wealth, opportunities, responsibilities, etc; that we tend to get worried of
certain things, and worse, we start to compare ourselves to others. The worst
thing is when we compare our own life with the ones on Instagram.
Your watch may be digital, but your live is
analog
Well, thanks to the technology that now,
life becomes easier (or not?).
We have more choices on everything, that we
become tired of choosing. We become so scared that our choices are wrong just
because there are so many of them to choose from!
How many of you lie awake at night,
thinking about what you’re doing, or what you’ll do next, or what you’ve missed
out, or what you’ve wasted?
In a world where everything is in a fast
pace, we tend to walk with a sense of urgency. We think we are running out of
time to do big things and if we don’t catch up, we’ll fail.
This is why, it’s so easy for us to feel
burdened. To feel that we haven’t met our own criteria as a successful businessman, as a supervisor, as a happy wife, as a loving husband, as a child, as a parent, and so on.
All of us, are running, towards what we
call happiness. But what most of us don’t know; is that
If you can’t feel happy TODAY, you won’t
be, tomorrow.
You’re only creating disaster when you
focus on things you don’t have. You will NEVER EVER be happy if you think the
grass is always greener on the other side. *In case of Instagram, you know they
can filter the grass, which makes a greener green?
Once you move into that greener grass, you’ll
start to think that the other neighbor's grass is greener, and the neighbor's next to your neighbor's grass.. and this thought will never stop.
Focus on the present, because the present
is a gift (oh yeah, you’ve heard this before, you’ll always hear it!)
Quoting from Aunty Acid:
“Caffeine is bad for you
Fat is bad for you
Sugar is bad for you
But don’t Worry
Worrying is bad for you too!”
*If you don’t know who’s Aunty Acid, you
can find it here (she’s
like.. the funniest, bitchiest, most sarcastic realistic aunt you’ll ever want
to meet and do high-five with!)
Whenever you start to worry or you lose
yourself, or wonder if you could be happy somewhere else; it’s time to slap
yourself back to the present moment and see what’s surrounding your life right
now.
You have your parents still alive? Grateful
for that!
You can spend money on a cup of coffee? Great!
You have books to read? That means you have
sights, right? Thank God!
You have friends to laugh with or lean on? Then
you have everything!
Please, enjoy the moment and stop worrying too much, because it’s all
we’ve got. Our past has gone and don’t worry about the future – it hasn’t
arrived yet.
The grass isn’t greener on the other side. It
never is.
