Happiness: The drug of existence

Confession: you can make me do anything for an animal that is content.

I am the happiest human being when I see my animal friends in a state of contentment. I think happiness is misunderstood and overrated, it's like the drug of existence. The normal sign of "happiness" is actually contentment. You may not be unhappy, you may not be happy... but as long as you're content with life and with your situation in life, you're good to go.

Chasing money, chasing popularity, in short, chasing happiness is a waste. Even if you do achieve these things, you'll be happy for one day at best and then you'll start wanting more and you'll start chasing other things or more of the same. When you disconnect with greed, you find contentment. When you find contentment, you're happy permanently. Even when you face hardships, being a contented human being will give you the strength to face these struggles and really go through it without getting traumatized or affected permanently by these.

The biggest lie we are being fed is that the more of something we have, the more successful we are in life and more desirable we are socially... and so the happier you will be. I truly think it's not how much of something you have, but it's about how much you WANT? The moment you decide that "Well, I just want a few million dollars in my savings account and once I have that, I'm content" or "if I have even one person in my life who I can rely on in life, I'm content." and so on.

Some pages on the social media show you big expensive cars and houses and ask you to find virtue in obtaining them are actually leading you in the wrong direction... the direction of unending greed and zero contentment. Don't get me wrong, I'm human and being human means being imperfect and honestly, that's what it is... accepting that you are flawed by the principle of being human, is going to help you find contentment.

We are all gonna want more money or whatever... you have to work towards building yourself up to control your urges because you know that it ain't leading to anything good. That's when you'll be in a state of contentment.

That's all for today. I hope you agree, if you don't, even better... you can help me gain new knowledge or perspective :)

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