"Success is subjective.
If you are happy with what you do then you are successful."
That quote i remember coming from the mouth of a lady speaker during my younger brother's commencement exercise almost 2 years ago. I would have to agree with that... Because i have proven it for myseslf.
Then i heard a story about happiness and contentment.
A person is happy because he is contented. He is contented because he is happy. A very simple logic that often times people doesn't seem to realise.
It seems like nowadays, that thing called happiness have become
so expensive that only a few people can afford it. But i have seen it around
me. It was given to those who knew how to achieve it.
Happiness is not something you just find somewhere else, but
i guess it is achieved by giving.
So when my time came to share a story or make a speech at work, i turned the internet world topsy turvy till i found this story of happiness. It was actually hard for me to choose what topic to talk about but when i read this i knew i needed to share it to others and most especially to myself.
I knew that time i needed to enlighten myself about happiness. I had to learn to find it.
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This story is about a beautiful, expensively dressed lady
who complained to her psychiatrist that she felt her whole life was empty, that,
it had no meaning:
So, the lady went to visit a counselor to seek out
happiness.
The counselor called over the old lady who cleaned the
office floors and then said to the rich lady "I am going to ask Mary here
to tell you how she found happiness. All I want for you to do is listen to
her."
...
So the old lady who cleaned the office floors put down her
broom, sat on a chair and told Her story:
"Well, my husband died of malaria and three months
later my only son was killed in a car crash. I had nobody - I had nothing left.
I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, I never smiled at anyone, I even thought of
taking my own life.
Then one evening a little kitten followed me home from work.
Somehow I felt sorry for that kitten. It was cold outside, so I decided to let
the kitten in. I got it some milk, and the kitten licked the plate clean. Then
it purred and rubbed against my leg and, for the first time in months, I
smiled.
Then I stopped to think, if helping a little kitten could
make me smile, maybe doing something for people could make me happy.
So the next day I baked some biscuits and took them to a
neighbor who was sick in bed.
Every day I tried to do something nice for someone. It made
me so happy to see them happy.
Today, I don't know of anybody who sleeps and eats better
than I do. I've found happiness, by giving it to others."
When the rich lady heard that, she cried. She had everything
that money could buy, but she had lost the things which money cannot buy.
The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are; but
on how happy others can be because of you.
Happiness is not a destination, it's a journey.
Happiness is not tomorrow, it is now.
Happiness is not a dependency, it is a decision.
Happiness is what you are, not what you have!
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So whatever keeps you from being happy, leave it behind.
Take that step towards it because it is never too far away.
We just have to find happiness within ourselves.
It lives in each and everyone of us.
Remember that happiness is you.
"Happiness is only a step away if only you'll learn to take the next step towards it."
-natnat
