Isn’t it crazy that the more things we see, the more things we want? Things just can’t make us happy. I know everyone’s heard it before and it sounds cliché but the way we live our lives shows that we don’t really understand it.
Happiness is how you feel about yourself when you’re by yourself. All the advertisements we see make us think that we need to add something to our lives to make them better, yet what we don't realize is that we actually feel happier when we subtract things from our lives and make them simpler. You could buy a pair of shoes that are the latest trend today but then next week they're so lame. When we buy something, we’re not actually buying that thing we’re trying to buy the feeling that we think we are missing. When we want that watch or that bag or that car, we’re actually wanting its recognition, popularity and/or self-worth.
We’ve grown up watching advertisements, TV shows and now social media, that make us believe if you wear this, you’ll be more confident or more attractive and we have to ask ourselves, why do we want these things. Do we want them to make other people feel jealous? Do we want them so that we can compare ourselves to others? To be 'cool'?
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We end up spending money we don't have, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We tell ourselves that when I get this, THEN I’ll be happy, we're delaying our happiness based on some material thing when what we don't realize is that if we are doing something that we love every day then it won't matter what we have. You can have the most amazing things in the world, but nothing can replace the feeling of loving who you are, and what you do. You can't buy those feelings, you have to build them, create them and find them and that is why so many of us end up spending money we don't have, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like. We have to realize that the only thing that can make you happy is you.
Source:
Comments