Never have I seen so many young, privileged, people trying so hard to be happy. There are countless articles written about it, blogs named for it, workshops attending to it. Who ever said we’re supposed to be happy all the time, anyway? We’re not. And the pressure to do so might be what’s making us unhappy to begin with. It’s OK if you’re not completely content with your life twenty-four hours a day. Can you imagine what a boring person you’d be if you were? Going through shit storms, feeling uninspired, hating the way you look and having guilt over not accomplishing enough are just some of the things that make you interesting, relatable and human. Not to mention, if you’re reading this, then you have internet access and if you have internet access, it stands to reason that you have a computer, which makes me think you probably have a place to live, with electricity and plenty of food to eat and clean clothes to wear, which are all things that an enormous amount of people living on the planet today do not have. This is not to say that people shouldn’t strive to better their positions in life, however it seems like so many of us are no longer content with a regular amount of happy, yet dead-set on being maniacally jubilant, all of the time.Kelly Rheel
About This Quote
It is difficult to maintain a level of happiness and fulfillment all the time. Many times we try to make adjustments to our lives; we make different choices or changes in order to improve our happiness and feel more fulfilled, but these changes often only last for a brief period of time. The problem with this is that we can’t always control what others do and say, and sometimes we end up feeling bad about ourselves, which then leads to feelings of sadness and unhappiness. We also think that we can solve everything by changing something within us.
The truth is that if we want to change the way we feel about ourselves and our lives, we need to first understand how we feel and why we feel that way in the first place. For example, if your self-esteem is low because you think that I am unattractive or I am not good enough, in most cases you are not giving yourself enough credit in regards to the things that you do in life. You may have many talents in life but if they are not enough for you, then find ways to show your strengths to yourself so you can begin developing them even further.
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