Where Does Happiness Come From?
By Darryl Duke. Filed in Happiness |Tags: addiction, alcoholism, finding happiness, Happiness, true happiness
Short answer? Loving yourself enough to be happy with who you are. Long answer? Well for the sake of keeping it simple, I’ll still make this a short answer, but with a little more detail. Happiness simply comes from trying to be a better person. Not better than other people, but better than you were before. Now I must confess it took a lot of practice for me to become a better person than I was before and I’ll further confess that I can still fail at being a better person on some occasions. However, I know in my heart that today I truly am a good person and try not to beat myself up over it. This is because somewhere along the line I also began to love myself unconditionally. Now for the detail part. I mentioned how it took a lot of practice for me to become a better person and this is the basic idea behind anyone wanting to be happier in life and eventually loving themselves enough to be happy with who they are. How can you not feel good about yourself when you try as best you know how to be a more loving person than you were before? And how can you not feel good about yourself if you try and show more kindness to others than you did before? Also how can you not feel good about yourself, if at the very least you try to be more understanding of why people you don’t like behave in ways that upset you, and practice a little more tolerance towards them? The answer is that you cannot help but to start feeling better about yourself and this is where happiness ultimately has to start. Being happy in life was all I ever wanted to be, and I found out that by simply practicing love, kindness, understanding, and tolerance towards others and myself, it helped me to achieve that. However, what I didn’t know was that after this began to happen it would someday lead to being happy with who I was. Of course as you know if you’ve been reading my blog. It helps to also try and believe there’s a creator that gave us the ability to be happy, but that’s another story, mine.
