I started 2020 with a mission to define happiness. Now the definition may seem obvious to some people, but for me I was having a hard time clearly defining what it looked like in my life. For the past 20+ years I defined my happiness primarily being with my daughters. Then in the last few years I became an empty nester, which in turn I felt my happiness was gone. Then I came across an article that talked about being addicted to our unhappiness. We cling to what makes us unhappy because we are afraid to let go of the familiar. When we stop our addiction to living in the past or future, happiness will naturally happen. I am trying each day to learn to live for that day. To stop looking in the past and making myself sad with memories, and to not focus so much on the future thinking once this or that happens, I will be happy. I want to live in the moment, making new memories each day. That is happiness. “If one is unhappy, one wants to know the reason why. But it never occurs to one to ask why one is happy. It is therefore unhappiness, rather than happiness, that causes us to reflect upon our condition. It is unhappiness that makes us think.” Sangharakshita
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