“I want to live my life without stress and worries. I don’t need to be rich or famous. I just want to be happy.” ~Unknown
Have you ever set a goal and then become obsessed with it, making it the center of your life and arranging everything else around it? Did you think that only after you achieved your goal would you be totally relaxed and happy?
I’ve done this many times before.
Throughout my life, I’ve measured my happiness by my achievements. I pushed to get good grades in school, then focused on going to a good college, then getting a high-paying job.
However, even after getting all of those things, I was not happy. After attaining them, they felt ordinary, not as extraordinary as I thought they were.
The feeling of achievement was not that awesome after all.
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I have added my own comments about this elusive “thing” called happiness several times in the past. I truly believe that there are very few times in life that I rate as “happy” at the time. It's in the looking back that you see the happiness of the guests at the wedding party and you forget the stress of all the organisation. TWICE for me and then once for my younger daughter but there are lots of other occasions I am sure you can recall when you the lousy sandwiches on the train dominated your thoughts and not the brilliant event you went to -- until afterwards. It is truly not something to be chased.
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