The Pursuit Of Happiness

Was Gtalking with a friend just now and he asked, “Is happiness more than family?” well, the answer is quite subjective. Some might think happiness is family, while some, freedom is happiness. Of course, to some, money is happiness but to some, as long as their stomach is filled, it’s happiness. There are a lot of ways to define happiness and it’s different for each individual. Some might think that as long as they have a lot of money, they will be happy and their family will be happy too. But when one gets too obsessed with making money, they tend to neglect a lot of things around them. Like family and friends tho they thought money can make family happy and friends will be happy for them but in many cases, it backfired. And they will soon realise that they are actually not happy.

There are also people who think that it’s not important to have expensive clothes, big houses and nice cars because all they wish for is good health and integrity. I’m not saying that rich people don’t have integrity, it’s all different topic altogether. Let’s focus on the former. They’re happy with what they have even if they are no match with the higher society. However, people around them will say that they have no goals in their life; they don’t strive for the best and that they are just plain lazy to make some money. At the end of the day, their children might blame them for not giving them the best things in the world, which will lead the child to thinking that money is happiness and it leads them to become like what I wrote in the first paragraph.

As for some people, freedom is happiness. They don’t want anything to get in their way to achieve their kind of happiness, which is carefree and no strings attached so they can do anything as they like as long as nobody is there to stop them from doing so. They don’t care about money, they don’t care about family, all they care is about themselves. All these attitudes will make people around them angry. Angry that they’re irresponsible. Angry that they’re selfish.

A normal person will put family as their first priority and for them, happiness comes from family. Nothing is more important than family, or so they thought. Which sometimes, will make the people around them think that they’re too overprotective and old-fashioned. At the end of the day, their family hate them for being a control freak.

So in every happiness that they pursue, there are definitely sadness and negative things that will happen along the way or at the end of the pursuit. So the conclusion? It’s all about balance. We cannot change how people prefer the way they make their own happiness. We cannot stop them from thinking the way they are. Most importantly, we have to ask ourselves, are the people around me happy? Am I happy knowing that they are? Should I? Do I have to care so much?

We are all human. Sometimes, we just need to be a lil bit selfish. Sometimes, we just need to let go off that grudge.

 

To you who might be reading this, I hope you’ll be happy. You know we’re all here to support you.