Good morning Steemos,
Not a nutrition or fitness blog today but rather a subject that I have been pondering about lately, HAPPINESS.
Throughout my years of living, working, being married and having a child I have often thought about what you need to be happy. What is the magic formula or the perfect ingredientes in life, that come together to create this very sought after feeling of happiness?
After giving it a good amount of thoughts, I have come to think (rightly or wrongly) that there are 3 main ingredientes that you have to have to even begin to reach anything resembling happiness.
You need HEALTH
You need LOVE
You need WEALTH
In the above holy trinity of happiness, when I refer to wealth I don't mean wealth in knowledge or anything of the kind... I mean MONEY. Hardcore cash!
Throughout life I have come to see thousands of people who have one or two but never all three!
1) People have love and are healthy but poor as church mouses. Or they look like they have money on the outside but it's all a house of cards.
2) People have money and health but walk around with a gold digger next to them (male or female!) or a spouse that is cheating left right and Center - no love.
3) Or there are those who have money and love but are simply not healthy. They are dying in forms of cancer, or have severe depression or are unhappy with their obese bodies or are working themselves to the bone to maintain the money that they have while sacrificing all form of social life work/life balance.
One way or another I have never actually met someone who, by the above measures, would be considered happy. Obviously everything is relative and what I would consider wealth might be peanuts to others or ridiculous standards to others. People also have different definitions of health and love.
Of course there are also always shifts in the trinity. One second you might think you have it all, the love of your life, health and money and then BAM... your partner dies and again you are left with 2 ingredientes only!
So by these measures, I'm now left to wonder, are we as humans ever able to reach happiness or is it all a lie? Are we always pursuing happiness and never actually getting there?
Please do give me your comments as I would love to discuss this further.