It is difficult to find a person who would not like to be happy. However, the very concept of happiness is very ambiguous, for different people it can be associated with completely different things. Nevertheless, there are some universal criteria that allow you to determine what it means to be a happy person.
Among the successful people who have made a career and seem to have achieved everything that can only be dreamed of, there are not so many people who can call themselves a truly happy person. Already many times a variety of people have said that happiness is not about money - then what is it?
Happiness criteria
As a rule, people give standard answers to the question of what happiness is. For some, this is a family, children, a loved one. For another - good work, for a third - health, etc. etc. Analyzing the answers, we can conclude: a person is happy when he feels good. It’s hard to be happy when you’re sick, alone when you don’t like your job. This is the very case when being determines consciousness - you feel good when everything is in order.
But the opposite situation is also possible, when it is consciousness that determines being. A person chooses his own path, focusing on his most cherished goals and desires. It is this path, following it, that makes him truly happy.
It is important to understand that true goals and aspirations are determined by the soul of a person. The soul will never strive for money, fame - it is not interested in it. The soul loves to create, so many people choose creative professions and professions associated with the ability to create something, explore.
Personal growth is very important for the soul. Hence the desire of many people to overcome, to achieve new horizons. Swim across the ocean, conquer a mountain peak, achieve some kind of success - but not for the sake of success as such, but specifically for personal growth. A person is happy when he succeeds in something, when he does what gives him pleasure. On the way, he may have many obstacles and difficulties, but they are perceived not as another misfortune, but as a challenge, as an opportunity to once again overcome oneself.
A person is happy when the soul is happy
True happiness is possible only when the soul is happy. Why do so many people choose this or that hobby for themselves? Because it gives them the opportunity to feel happy, to get away from the routine of mundane uninteresting things. The soul is interested in a lot - it will be with the same pleasure looking at postage stamps and breeding a new variety of tomato, admiring the stars through a telescope and collecting a perpetual motion machine in the garage.
And when is a person unhappy? Then, when his soul does not find applications for his talents. When she wants to do one thing, but her interests are unceremoniously pushed aside and forced to do something completely different. Maybe she will try to express herself in a new field, to create within the framework that has been established for her, but the result will be completely different.
How to be happy
First of all, believe in yourself, in what can still be changed. After that, determine your true values, your real vocation. Outline the ways to achieve the desired life situation - and go to it, regardless of any difficulties.
The most important thing is that this path itself will bring joy. The soul is happy not only when the goal has been achieved, but also on the way to it. This is the secret of true happiness - to be who you are, to go to where you want to go. Do not change yourself, your dream, and life will be truly happy.
