The Secret to Happiness
Over 214 million dollars were spent on the internet last year to
find meaningful relationships. People all over the globe are
looking for happy and fulfilling relationships. Yet, obviously
most are not finding it. Why? What is wrong?
The problem is in the goal or objective. People are driven to
find happiness. They will do just about anything to try and get
it. Yet, they don't find it. Herein is the problem, happiness is
always a by product of something. Happiness is not something you
can just go and get.
There is one basic principle that if you learn will change your
life forever. Every human ought to learn, memorize, mediate, and
apply it to their life. It is possible to be happy after a
divorce, but it is also possible to be very unhappy while
married. Is that true? Of course you know that to be a fact.
However, you can have happiness if you aim at the right target.
What, then, is the right target? The right target to aim at in
your life is "Personal Development" into manhood or womanhood
whichever pertains to you.
Nature itself reveals that at conception you are to develop or
grow. That is the way we are designed. This is not just speaking
of physical maturity, but also, emotional, spiritual, and
intellectual maturity. You get married for the purpose of
personal development.
You go to college for the purpose of personal development. You
work a job, start a new career, get a divorce, and have
children, etc, etc, for the purpose of becoming a better person.
You should not only be a better person after having traveled
your life journey, not the world should be a better place
because you were alive.
Why should you look at it this way? The answer is simplistic,
but the application is hard work. It will take discipline on
your part. The reason you ought to have this mindset is that
happiness is a choice. It is a decision. It is an action that
you must make, but only those who are mature will ever rise
above their circumstances to choose to be happy regardless of
what someone else has done to them.
You don't have to believe me. You can go on in your own
unhappiness if you wish. But the plain truth is no one can steal
your joy from you. You have to permit them to take it.
This is why I say that everything that you do in life should
have the underlining motive that you are going to grow into
womanhood or manhood, whichever is the case. Only the mature can
decide to be happy.
Will you purpose in your mind today that you will follow a life
style of perpetual growth? It takes time. It takes work. It
takes patience. You will not change over night. However, if you
will constantly work on you, you will mature into a healthy
stable person.
Granted, what is healthy and stable for one will be something
different for the next, but that is not the point because you
can not be someone else. You can only be who you are.
I would recommend that you put more time and finances in your
personal development than anything else.