HAPPINESS – MY TAKE

Dated 23rd July, 2024.

I describe it very simply. It is a mindset created at birth by your genes and developed by each individual in his/her life.

The art of Happiness is simply understood by thinking of happiness in two separate parts – let’s use your hands.

Your left hand is your individual self and your right hand your interaction with other persons.

Your left hand nurtures all the essential “individual” ingredients:-

  • Love.

  • Self confidence.

  • Passion to seek knowledge.

  • Passion with a particular interest.

  • Health.

  • Money.

  • Determined and positive mindset.

Your right hand nurtures all the essential “relationships with other persons” ingredients:-

  • Respect.

  • Compassion.

  • Tolerance.

  • Loyalty.

  • Forgiveness.

  • Trust.

  • Being able to give time/money/advice to other persons.

  1. Your two hands are constantly moving and in different “fields” of happiness all the time.

    Interlock the fingers of both hands and let us consider that to be the “perfect” position for Happiness.

    But it does not stay locked.  It moves about and around constantly. The main thing is that the “force of happiness” keeps the hands and fingers close together.  That is the all important “right or good balance” we have in life as individuals with everything we do, when we do it and how we do it and with whom we do it.

    The all important essential ingredients to keeping the hands and fingers locked or as close to being locked as possible requires:-

    • Honesty

    • Luck

    • Being adaptable

  2. In society today many more people lack respect for other people and are “great pretenders” and simply not honest.

    It is all a matter of degree:-

    The luck at birth with your genes and in life with where you are born and your family and friends and the ability to feel or see an opportunity to access the risk and either take or reject it.

    Then to get the right balance between you as an individual and what you want to do and what others who need or want your time want to do.

    Life was not meant to be easy.  Every day is a balancing act.  But it is the above ingredients, separated then mixed and developed in each persons mindset that provides a various assortment of happy persons all over the world with different personalities, experiences, education, families etc., 

    Live your own life.  Not in “Alice in Wonderland” and certainly not by following celebrities and influencers and other persons on the internet or social media.  By all means listen, read and evaluate but in the end live your own life with self confidence, determination, positivity and desire to learn something new each day and thereby continually seeking to make yourself a more knowledgeable and better person.

    When you feel good about yourself and with such mindset you are able to interrelate better with other persons and have contentment of mind, body and soul.

    Goodluck!

    Quotes

    • Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

    • Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man.

    • The happiest people are not those who have the best of everything, but who make the best out of everything.