There are things that deserve more appreciation than anything else in life.
Materialistic possessions and tangible assets fall short of its value the older we grow and mature. Don’t get me wrong. Wealth and riches deserves its place and love. And it changes life for the better. Financial prosperity is everything. In The sense that it fulfills your physical needs and desires and creates a lifetime of comfort, peace and solitude. Once this aspect of our lives are complete, things become less cumbersome. And comfort takes hold of us. But Comfort can be misleading. Because it can be mistaken as happiness, when in fact it’s just a facade that misleads us until years pass and we come into a serious realisation.
There are two types of happiness. True happiness and the “comfort type”. Comfort happiness is derived from short-term bursts of dopamine. It doesn’t resonate with us. It flourishes and fades overtime. For example living the party lifestyle. Getting into hard drugs. Indulging in unhealthy foods. Hook ups. Or simply having so much money and riches that it becomes deadweight. The absurdity of having so much money that it leads to depression sounds odd to say the least but it happens. All these instances constituent to what I call “comfort happiness”. It’s temporary feeling. And so increasingly surface-level that its impact may feel so strong but fade just as fast. This sought of happiness is a devils deceit.
In contrast to this, true happiness lies at the other end of the spectrum. It is the most profoundly satisfying feeling ever. And within that sense of happiness lies swathes of various emotions that sing joy and optimism. True happiness is derived from things like long-term love, inner stability. Having meaning and direction and having control over your life. And by controlling your life it beans controlling what variables are in your control like your emotions. Your studies. Not giving power to words said by others. Happiness in this form can even withstand the worst of the worst which makes it all the more embracing. This type of happiness isn’t a constant state. But an emotional baseline with occasional jumps of joy. Chasing a constant state of happiness is a curse. What gives meaning to life is triumph and struggle. So we must experience these things to to feel human.
