{"id":33509,"date":"2018-03-31T18:56:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T15:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/?p=33509"},"modified":"2018-03-31T18:56:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T15:56:32","slug":"recipe-for-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/recipe-for-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Simple Recipe for Happiness That Most People Fail to Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"
Why does it take so many efforts to understand this simple yet elusive recipe for happiness<\/strong>? Why are we always waiting for someone special to make us thrilled? For sunny weather that would boost a good mood? Why are we waiting for that very beautiful dress to feel fabulous instead of feeling yourself already terrific in your favorite jeans?<\/p>\n There are lots of ways to be happy<\/a>, but the dispirited mindset we have today stems from our childhood. Let us be honest: when we were kids, our parents were responsible for our happy life. They took care of us, knew what was good for us and did their best for us to feel joyful.<\/p>\n Time went by. We are not children anymore, and the question of how to make yourself happy pops up, as we still tend to wait for someone to make us feel special one day. At the universities, we have courses we do not like. We go to work we hate<\/a> in order to earn some money because everyone has to do something for a living.<\/p>\n We communicate with most of the people just because we somehow have to. And we are expecting holidays to bring us joy and happiness, but life does not work like this<\/em>. In most cases, we drift with the stream forgetting that the reason for our unhappiness lies in ourselves. We shouldn\u2019t imitate happiness, we should live.<\/p>\n Once, when I was a kid, my mom told me I have to study hard for her not to be ashamed. There was nothing strange in these words. I am certain many kids have heard pretty much the same from their parents.<\/p>\n Being a child, I didn\u2019t realize the implied meaning of this phrase, but now, I am here for sharing my experience of making myself cheerful.<\/p>\n \u2018Study hard for me not to be ashamed of you<\/em>\u2019. Long story short, the phrase is minimal, but the meaning it implies is huge. So it looked like I had to study hard not be intelligent, gain any knowledge or master any skills. I had to study hard to create an image of a person who is smart, but not to be a smart person.<\/p>\n Such situations had taken place in our childhood form the model of our thinking, happy thoughts and merry life perception<\/a>. Later on, we have to choose any job, because most of the people do this way. It doesn\u2019t matter whether we enjoy our work or not, but it is no good to differentiate from the bulk of people.<\/p>\nMy Recipe for Happiness<\/h3>\n