How to be Genuinely Happy
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Genuine Happiness Comes from Within. Life isn’t the sweetest
candy. Sometimes, when I feel like the world is just too heavy,
I look around and find people who continued to live fascinating
and wonderful lives. And then thoughts come popping into my
mind like bubbles from nowhere –
History: Article | SEPT 30/05
Edited: Lonnie A | MAR 30/09
“How did their life become so adorably sweet? How come they
still can manage to laugh and play around despite a busy
stressful life?” Then I pause and observed for awhile… I
figured out that maybe, they start to work on a place called
‘self’.
So, how does one become genuinely happy? Step 1 is to love
yourself.
My theology professor once said that “loving means
accepting.” To love oneself means to accept that you are not a
perfect being, but behind the imperfections must lie a great
ounce of courage to be able to discover ways on how to improve
your repertoire to recover from our mistakes.
Genuine happiness also pertains to contentment. When you are
contented with the job you have, the way you look, with your
family, your friends, the place you live in, your car, and all
the things you now have – truly, you know the answer to the
question “how to be genuinely happy.”
When we discover a small start somewhere from within, that
small start will eventually lead to something else, and to
something else. But if you keep questioning life lit it has
never done you any good, you will never be able to find genuine
happiness.
I believe that life is about finding out about right and
wrong, trying and failing, wining and losing. These are things
that happen as often as you inhale and exhale. Failure, in a
person’s life has become as abundant and necessary as air. But
this should not hinder us from becoming happy.
How to be genuinely happy in spite all these? I tell you…
every time you exert effort to improve the quality of life and
your being, whether it is cleaning up your room, helping a
friend, taking care of your sick dog, fail on board exams and
trying again, life gives you equivalent points for that.
Imagine life as a big score board like those which are used
in the NFLs. Every time you take a step forward, you make
scoring points. Wouldn’t it be nice to look at that board at
the end of each game and think to yourself “Whew! I got a point
today. I’m glad I gave it a shot.”, instead of looking at it
all blank and murmur “Geez, I didn’t even hit a score today. I
wish I had the guts to try out. We could have won!” and then
walk away.
Genuine happiness isn’t about driving the hottest Formula 1
car, nor getting the employee of the year award, earning the
highest 13th month pay, or beating the sales quota. Sometimes,
the most sought after prizes in life doesn’t always go to the
fastest, the strongest, the bravest or not even the best. So,
how do you become genuinely happy?
Every one has his own definition of ‘happiness’. Happiness
for a writer may mean launching as much best selling books as
possible. Happiness for a basketball rookie may mean getting
the rookie of the year award. Happiness for a beggar may mean a
lot of money. Happiness for a business man may mean success.
So, really now, how do we become genuinely happy? Simple. You
don’t have to have the best things in this world.
Its about doing and making the best out of every single
thing. When you find yourself smiling at your own mistake and
telling your self “Oh, I’ll do better next time”, you carry
with you a flame of strong will power to persevere that may
spread out like a brush fire. You possess a willingness to
stand up again and try – that will make you a genuinely happy
person.
When you learn to accept yourself and your own faults. You
pass step 1 in the project “how to become genuinely happy”.For
as long as you know how to accept others, you will also be
accepted. For as long as you love and know how to love, you
will receive love ten folds back.
Again, throw me that same question “how to become genuinely
happy?”. I’ll refer you to a friend of mine who strongly
quoted- “Most of us know that laughter is the best medicine to
life’s aches and pain. But most of us don’t know that the best
kind of laughter is laughter over self. Coz then you don’t just
become happy… you become free.”
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