Happiness can mean different things to different people and it could mean money or being wealthy for some people, it could also mean playing music for strangers in the street not just for the money but the happiness and joy derived from it, it could also mean getting a roof over your head and people can also derive happiness by trying to make people happy.
For some, happiness may simply be leaving a toxic relationship and for others happiness may simply be those little things we take for granted but which others view as bliss like being able to talk, being able to sleep, being able to do what normal human being could do and for others, happiness may simply be witnessing their favorite celebrity perform live on stage and they are happy with that.
Happiness may have the same meaning to everyone and at the same time it might have different concept to everyone and i want to offer a story about pursuing happiness.
This story is popular and you might have heard it before....There was this man who had a lovely wife and a young child which he mostly looked after the child because his wife worked at a laundry shop and stayed over from Monday to Friday, so he had no choice but to look after his child until he was old enough to make his own decisions and the age was probably 16.
Despite his difficulties and the challenges, this man manages to enroll his son in one of the best schools in his neighborhood that he could afford comfortably without incurring any debts and he always makes time for this child and most importantly, he does all of this because he didn't meet his own father until he was 28 years old, and he promised himself since he was a child that if he ever had a child, he would never neglect him or abandon him to a childless home to be adopted by a stranger.
He was an engineer who invented a machine that looks like an x-ray but produces images that are sparser and well detailed than those produced by an x-ray, which he tried to sell to hospitals every day but couldn't because people thought it was too expensive for such crap that is mot even recognized by standard hospitals around the country and to be honest, these equipment were not expensive, so his bills began to pile up and more expenses came in, and his wife no longer cared or supported him, and she began to show signs that she wanted to leave the marriage and abandon him and the son alone.
A time came and this particular man met a man with a Lamborghini and a white suit while strolling along his usual path to make sales of his invention which was the machine, and he asked him With a smiling face, what he did for a job and how he did it. and the white man in the suit said, "I'm a stock broker," and he joked, "do you have to go to college to be a broker?" and the man replied, "You simply have to be good with numbers and people."
He wasn't able to make any sales that same day, so when he went home, he told his wife about the idea of being a stock broker, but she didn't accept it since she assumed he wouldn't be able to make it in that business because she had been working double shift for almost 6 months and their house payment was due. so his wife already had enough of him and had to leave him alone with his child in order to pursue her own happiness which she regards as freedom from the family she was married into.
The landlord came over on his first day as a single father to issue him a one week notice, and he had no choice but to begin his 6 month internship to become a broker, after which he had to write an exam and he tried to adopt to the new challenges while also managing his previous challenges and within a short period, he accomplished everything he set out to do, and he met a number of affluent people along the way who did not support him, but he never gave up.
His results finally came out, and he was the best overall, and after a few years, he closed the most lucrative contract the company had ever considered and finally he found happiness after a years pursuing it which was financial happiness.
Final thought
Life can be so funny sometimes and it can also be non predictable that what you love and you are passionate about won't make its way for you for reasons I don't understand, and you begin to feel unfulfilled. The best thing you can do for yourself is to create another hubby and develop passion for it because everything will work out in the end and you will begin to experience happiness.
Life doesn't have a manual, not everything you do will work out but ensure you have different options and learn every available skils you can because at the end if the day, it will be you all alone with no one by your side.
Isn't it strange?, It's strange for me as well, and my final questions are:
"Do you believe you can find happiness anywhere?"
And how do you define your happiness?
Thanks for reading ❤️👋🏾