Modern self help cultivates the notion that you should strive to be happy. Happiness is presented in culture as something you achieve or get, available on the other side of accomplishment. But it’s in fact the opposite, happiness is that indescribable peace and contentment when there is no chase, no desire to be somewhere other than this moment. What you get after accomplishment is pleasure, and that goes away. There is in fact unhappiness in chasing happiness, because you find yourself fighting against your self asking “why am I not happy?”. So don’t ask or strive for it, and watch happiness appear
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