How To Find Happiness

Chances are that if youre trying to figure out how to find happiness, you probably havent found it yet. Happiness is such a simple concept, yet the process of achieving can be so difficult and complex. We might roll our eyes when we hear clichs like money cant buy happiness, but everyone knows that its so true. And those who dont believe that eventually come around when theyve hit the jackpot but still feel like somethings missing. So if money isnt the way to do it, what is? How do you go about finding true happiness?

You probably know this already, but you have to figure out how to find happiness in your own way. Most people have the desire to be happy, but what happiness means to them may differ according to their worldviews, goals and circumstances. But the feeling of happiness itself is universalit consists of feeling satisfied, or joyful, or full of love; its hard to explain but everyone knows what happiness is when they experience it.

You might have heard that you dont find happiness, happiness finds you. This is sort of true. Its false in that you cant just sit around and wait for happiness to appear. Complacency wont get you anywhere because youll just be sitting on your bottom the whole time. At the same time, happiness isnt necessarily something you search for and find. Happiness comes to you in the process of doing whats right for you and what you love, so you should stop trying to look for it. This doesnt mean giving up happiness altogether. It means that you should be focusing on how to bring happiness rather than how to find happiness. Its kind of like a bird (though was it hope that was the thing with feathers?) because you can run after one as much as you want but youll never be able to snatch one in your hands. But put up a bird feeder and the bird will come to you.

This is another clich, but you really do feel happy when you make others happy. Some people think this is false happiness because you feel somewhat selfish gratification from having helped someone else rather than feeling truly, selflessly happy, but theres nothing wrong with deriving pleasure out of bringing happiness to others as long as thats not the only motive behind itbecause when you help others purely out of self gain, youre looking for happiness again instead of bringing it to yourself.

After reading this, chances are you still dont feel like you dont know how to find happiness, but did you really think happiness could be achieved through something as simple as reading a short article? Again, thats something you need to figure out for yourself, and though you dont know what you to, hopefully now you might understand better why happiness still eludes your grasp.