The Secret To Happiness🤫🗝

Happiness- a concept humans have been trying to grasp from probably the beginning of time. Who am I to know...a really long time...to be sure...

To me, the struggle with happiness was always a struggle to be happy with myself.

But I've realized, the only person who needs to like me is me. And no one else. It doesn't matter what anybody thinks. I don't actually require their input. Sure it may be nice that someone likes what I also like, but, the secret to happiness certainly does not lie in the comfort of what others think or how others view you.

That's probably why so many people require praise. They're not actually happy with themselves. Something is still unresolved.

Backtrack, if happy > liking yourself > figuring out what you like, and becoming that.

First you have to figure out what it is that YOU like. It could be obvious things that you already know you like or don't like, or observing the world around you. Then you have to understand what you like and don't like, and change in the necessary ways.

The things that you can't change, you have to find things you do like about them (the positive) and embrace. Hopefully we can all grow to love and appreciate what we were given.

The more I go through the life, the more I realize: I truly don't think you can be happy without liking yourself. I think that maybe, I had a confusion in my mind, that not fully liking myself was somehow humble and the more Christian thing to do...but I've realized no, the two do not coincide. Hopefully, I'll be on a better and healthier path now, and can finally see what I have sowed.

For so long, I think I've been stuck in a ravine of content. I was content, I was okay. I thought this would always be enough; enough to get me through life. But I think I was wrong. I thought I was doing something right. I was wrong.

I believed that time would just heal. The contentedness that I was living in would blossom. It did not. But now I think that with a different mindset, healthier ways that will feel more right, I can be on the right path. And I have to actually work for it. Put in some work.

And it's not that I wasn't working on it before; but I think I was completely wasting energy. Doing something not effective that wasn't working. I thought time would heal. Deep down I knew it didn't feel right.

No one said being a Christian was easy!

-But I know it will be so worth it.

I still think there's a tough balance to be understood, between humility&pride, but I guess for so long, I've been on the low end of it, actually always on the low end.

It is not that

humility=you have to hate yourself

It's that

humility=not pride, you are able to recognize you need God and aren't better than anyone else, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be...more happy with yourself.