Happiness: the purpose of our life
Everyone is looking for happiness and everybody wants to be happy, But what is happiness. People become more unhappy when they try to look for happiness. Happiness has vast meaning, you might have everything but you are not still happy, you might have nothing you want but you become happy. It’s mostly spiritual rather than realistic. There are four main pillars of happiness.
Belongings are, Be happy with what you have. Don't desire too much or be ambitious about too many things. Expectations beyond your capacity & capabilities also make you unhappy. So, be patient and gratitude what you have in your life.
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The purpose depends on what you want to give others not what you want to take. Getting everything is not happiness rather giving is happiness. Think about a nurse's purpose, what makes her nurse serve her patients, the purpose of the father to raise his children well and make his family happy, the purpose of a generous person to give something others do not take.
Transcendence is the existence of a normal or physical level of something. It's most about spiritual and feelings one has in his mind. when we do good things we feel happy, when we speak the truth we feel at peace when we help others we feel calm & happy. So authenticity and truth to be oneself can make one happy.
Storytelling, here storytelling is not about the story of others telling on a stage in front of a large audience. It is the story we talk about ourselves. What’s is my purpose in life, what makes you inspired to live. When people become serious illness they talk some random words, sometimes mention few names of his close one, which give him the strength to come back his life. He motivates himself to what he is and what he wanted to be.
Above all, happiness can't be searched and found, it’s a mental stage of one's life that is full of spiritual thoughts and belongs one's has.