Being happy doesn’t mean you have it all. It simply means you’re thankful for all you have.
Are you able to achieve happiness with everything that you have currently?
Is there some prerequisite variable that stands between you and ultimately achieving happiness?
When we are capable of understanding how every single day of our lives is a gift and why each and every one of the experiences that come with a day are capable of bringing us certain degrees of satisfaction, contentment, and overall sense of wellness and belonging, we become that much more aware of how and why our expressions of happiness are triggered.
When we are grateful for all the things that life has bestowed upon us, including our health, parents, family, pets, upbringing, home, food and opportunities surrounding us, we are all the more in position to feel the deep appreciation that such privileges in life warrant.
Our basic understanding of gratitude and the necessity for gratitude, ultimately lies at the basis of how and where our overall happiness stems from.
We live in a world in which advertising and media continuously condition us to want more, expect more, achieve more… all with the expectation of fueling our consumer-based economy to the extent that those who are in the prerequisite position of generating all of that consumerism, (myself included), will prosper.
But I am willing to bet that when we drill down on the components in life that make us the most happy, they are seldom consumer-driven at all, and more accurately driven from tangible things that create emotions such as love and friendship or beauty and art and similar thought-provoking emotion-stimulating variables.
These focal points of gratitude, may well be more important to our overall expectation of living a life well-lived and feeling tremendously satisfied and appreciative at the conclusion than any physical object may ever be capable of generating for us.
When we finally surrender to this reality, we must ultimately come to the conclusion that everything stems from feeling appreciative and satiated for everything we have ever done, and as a direct result, learning to discover that our happiness is not conditional on any material item whatsoever, but rather upon our ability to control our frame of mind and to ultimately channel our deep understandings so that we might best prevail.
Happy Friday!
Brian Weiner 