If You Want Happiness, Tie It To A Goal. Not To People

1 month ago

Why should happiness be tied to anything at all? I was scrolling and saw this line: tie your happiness to a goal, not to people or things. Beautiful, but it made me ask — why tie happiness to anything? The moment you tie it, you create a condition: I will be happy IF this happens. In this video, I decode what actually happens when we tie happiness to people, to things, and even to goals — and why none of them can carry it. We hand people the remote control to our mind. They reply, we feel happy. They don't, we suffer. We buy things for comfort and turn them into anxiety. And even goals — they don't guarantee happiness, they just give suffering a direction. There is a difference between being happy WITH someone and DEPENDING on someone for happiness. Like sitting under a tree for shade