Happiness has always seemed elusive and mysterious to me. Not that I was a particularly unhappy child, but I did often feel that happiness was a goal that lay beyond checkpoints that I needed to discover and get past one by one. If I were to believe what society claimed (via family, authority figures, the media), it was as simple as following a prescribed path through life: study hard to do well in school, land a well-paying job, marry a good wife, buy a big house and a car, start a family, and eventually, I'd put together all the necessary parts of a happy life.
How to be happy
How to be happy
How to be happy
Happiness has always seemed elusive and mysterious to me. Not that I was a particularly unhappy child, but I did often feel that happiness was a goal that lay beyond checkpoints that I needed to discover and get past one by one. If I were to believe what society claimed (via family, authority figures, the media), it was as simple as following a prescribed path through life: study hard to do well in school, land a well-paying job, marry a good wife, buy a big house and a car, start a family, and eventually, I'd put together all the necessary parts of a happy life.