Finding Happiness
D Charles Williams PhD
Retired Licensed Psychologist, Marriage & Family Therapist and Executive Coach
Finding Happiness
By D Charles Williams, PhD
Merle Shain has a gift for poetically describing life in words most of us only wish we could pen:
Some people think they can “find happiness” by stockpiling possessions and stubbornly try to wrest fulfillment from the accumulation of things, and others look for themselves in other’s bodies or seek direction for their lives in horoscopes and drugs.
And some think “glory” will do it and try to find a little self-respect in the repetition of their names as it falls from strangers’ lips.
And some become narcissists and attempt to “love themselves” by covering their self-hate with costume of self-love while the gifts of others go unnoticed and hang suspended in space, and they spar with the seeping-creeping conviction that nothing really matters and that there is no hope.
But this I can tell you true—until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a “collection of needs,” an “empty vessel that someone else must fill up,” there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach.
As long as you think mostly of “getting,” you will have nothing real to “give.”
(From ……Hearts That We Broke Long Ago)
Dr. Williams is the author of WHAT’S DONE IN THE DARK: Affair-Proofing and Recovery from Infidelity-A Self Help Guide for Couples (2017)
V.P. Director of Real Estate and Training at Waffle House, Inc.
7 年Happiness; everybody wants it but we so often look in the wrong places to find it.