THE TRUE POWER OF CHOICE: Philosophical Approach About Happiness And Sadness

Happiness, what a lovely word, and an expensive one. Sadness, what a hated word, and a cheap one. The first one, you can easily find it; it is everywhere, whatever you look. The second one, same thing, it is as easy as the first one to find it, whatever you look; you find it also.

Why is one expensive and the other cheap then? Believe me, I’m also asking this question for myself every day. Why do we feel always sad and rarely happy while we experienced the opposite thing in our childhood? Are we becoming stupid when we grow up? Ah, because we’re growing up, that’s why happiness moves away from us. Okay, but why just when we grow? Why doesn’t it move away from us when we were children?

Happiness and sadness, they don’t move away or come back to us; we — humans — created them using our minds and our intelligence. Do you think that animals don’t feel happy and sad? They feel the same as us, but they don’t know the name of the feeling; they just experience it and keep moving forward to their death. While we — humans — named these feelings and had consciousness of them as feelings.

That’s why happiness and sadness are two things you can experience at any moment you want, unlike animals. When we grow up, we become more and more mature and conscious of many things in life, and then we become more able to control our feelings rather than our childhood that is more similar to animals.

But why, rather than feeling happy, do we rarely find it? I told you happiness is something perpetuated from our inner thoughts; it is something we have created using our intelligence. The answer is simpler than you might think: it is us that choose to be sad and not happy; it is our decision.

Listen, if you just stop caring about everything you see like a child, you will become happier than a child. First of all, be a child; stop caring about your future and stop trying to control every detail in your life. Just keep trying, learning, working, and let it go. Be a child, live as a child, and act like a child; stop overthinking and keep it up, and you will be a little bit happier than you were.

In addition, change the way you look at life, “money buys happiness.” How can we buy it when it is already perpetuated by us? I ask you a question: can you buy fear? Absolutely not, but someone smarter will answer me, yes, you can buy, I don’t know, a dog or a ticket to watch a horror movie, and then you buy it, see?

Listen, you can buy experience, but not a feeling; you can buy a ticket, but not fear; you can buy a car, a house, clothes, but not happiness. As I said, it is something created and generated by ourselves; we cannot buy it.

That’s why change the way you look at life. Make happiness related to something you can always get instead of many things that you need always to think about and work for, and probably you cannot afford it only with that. Now, you are not at least a child to feel the basic happiness.

Let happiness be linked with something more valuable than money. Make it seen in your family, your friends, your cup of coffee on a beautiful morning. Make it appear when you see a poor guy smiling at you after giving him one dollar to buy candies for his daughter, and see her smile and become happy.

Final words, the way you look, the way you feel, the content you perceive, the way you feel, look positively, think positively, go with the flow of life, and experience happiness rather than sadness. Let sadness come when life becomes jealous of your happiness, rather than giving you some money to feel a little bit happy from the door of pity.

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