WE always think about how we can build our careers, make more money, become fulfilled through our relationships. What is then the core need among all these things?
It is of course, our happiness.
After all, we live in a world where success and happiness are possible for us all. It’s almost like we get so upset when we are not happy because we feel entitled. It is from our search for happiness that we imagine so much more for ourselves. We expect the perfect partner that will tend to all our needs, the perfect job that stimulates but not overwhelms. The desire and love of people, even though we cannot control them.
Social media makes us believe others have achieved such things, but do we really know if this is the case?
This quote could help us solve this conundrum:
“We take the first steps towards maturity by determining some of the ways in which our emotional minds deny, lie, evade, forget and obsess… A readiness to mitigate the worst of our everyday foolishness contributes to the highest kind of emotional intelligence.” (The School of Life, Alain de Botton)
We may not realise It, but the key to happiness could be in this very quote. We can’t deny that our happiness lies within the feelings of our emotions, do these feelings though last forever? As our true happiness resides from the wisdom that is bought forth from our maturity, our ability to mitigate the foolishness we force upon each other. It is knowing the ways of others and knowing ourselves to a level that cuts beyond our feelings, as one who is truly happy is happy to be happy, but also happy to be sad.
Whereby, achieving this becomes the pinnacle of our emotional intelligence. As when we consider our contentment through our expectations and enjoying the things we have, we will forever, be happy.
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