The feeling of happiness depends on many factors. However, it is us, regardless of our current objectively or subjectively perceived life situation, who can feel happy or unhappy. Mostly it depends on our thoughts about happiness, it depends on ourselves whether we allow ourselves to feel happy.
"Most people, (…) as a result of sheer ignorance and faulty reasoning, are so preoccupied with contrived cares and excessively heavy duties that they fail to reap the more beautiful fruits of life."
it is possible to feel happy regardless of other people, regardless of the amount of accumulated goods (things), regardless of other factors on which people make their feeling of happiness dependent, it is simply possible to feel happy ALWAYS, every day.
What limits us? Why don't we feel full happiness? I think one of the main reasons is the fears we experience. If we got rid of the fears, our sense of happiness would be at a higher level.
The book of Y. Strickler entitled "This Could be Our Future. A Manifesto for a More Generous World" is a real manifesto for a better world. In the first part, the author describes how a world today wracked by the lust for profit functions. In the second, he gives examples of individuals and companies whose philosophy includes reference to and guidance in their choices of values such as justice or environmental responsibility.
In my opinion, it is possible to be a happy person, to experience happiness to a high degree and at the same time to expect and expect even more happiness than you are experiencing. This is exactly how it is in my life. It hasn't always been like this, but more than fifty years of life are doing their job.
"A new company has to offer something much better at the start than what the market leaders were offering when they started, and it has to be as good - if not better - than what they are offering now. And just as cheap. The expectation bar for creating a successful business is being set higher and higher."
I was inspired to write this post by the first dozen or so pages of the book ‘This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World’ by Yancey Strickler (I am reading it in Polish). The title alone encourages you to read. In the part I have already read, the author writes that the world is motivated by profits, GDP and a general profit orientation (i.e. material goods).
Some people say that the worst way to earn money is the so-called exchange of working time for money (cash). For example, if you work in an office or school, you are paid a certain salary per month.
What your current life looks like depends mainly on you. External factors can be (and often are) beyond your control, but you should take responsibility for your life, for what it looks like.
DARE TO LIVE 