This is a repeat of a 2011 post I came across as I was cleaning up my website:
To be truly happy we need to focus on quality – on the region of overlap.To be truly happy, we need to be pushing these circles closer and not spend energy on necessarily making them bigger. Makes sense?
—Maya, A Simple Happiness Equation
Does that make sense to you?
December 9, 2018
Success is still so often defined as having more of everything – money, property, friends, children etc. In which case true happiness will never be found because there’s always something else needed before we can be truly happy. Personally I’ve never wanted that much – a partner, a few friends, a comfortable home, enough money, that’s about it. Like you, I’m very happy with what I already have.
Amen to that!
well my happiness quota is in the 99% zone right now…and it all has to do with my general dislike in recent decades of Christmas. I have family/friends who assume I shouldn’t spend any money on anything – I’ve had occasions where I have made a well-thought out gift to have it given back to me, to sell – YEP, me sell it to make my money tree in better shape. I’ve been given strange presents – like a generic box of tissues, 1/2 a chocolate bar and once a kitchen scrubbing brush.
Then there are the times, when I’m told I must contribute food – I’m told to put in the kitchen but I never see it on the table with all the other food…and it’s rewrapped ready to give back to me!
And then is that “lecture” about my so called extravagance…
So I’ve not got into the whole thing for years…must say it saves a lot of money not having to buy anything, or go anywhere much…BUT it rankles a bit.
I don’t know when I thought (which year), “next year I’m otta here…” well this is that year. Leaving City on the 24th on a small Christmas themed tour with mature people (mostly women as I see from participant list) and not coming back until the 28th
HAPPINESS…
How rude your family/friends are! Good for you! You have much better things to do with your time. I hope you have a wonderful time — that’s the ideal response.