5 SOURCES OF HAPPINESS.
Last post I tried to define what happiness means to me personally and I don't think I did that as clearly I would have wanted. You can check out my last post How Do You Define Happiness? After yesterday's post, I continued thinking, what are the sources of happiness?
5 Sources of Happiness.
1. HAPPY RELATIONSHIPS.
Like I mentioned in my last post, one of the two times I felt intense happiness was during the period of my first relationship. Generally I think having someone you can talk to about anything at is therapy itself. It could be your parents, sibling or a romantic partner. The kind of joy we drive from happy relationships makes this the number one source of happiness.
2. FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE.
Another source of happiness would be the feeling of Independence. They say money stops bulls#!t. When you are financially bouyant, you are more confident, you can stand your ground, you take on new adventures etc. Even relationships become sweeter with money. But I think the happiness that we experience being financially free comes from a sense of freedom.
3. GOOD HEALTH.
The joy of being healthy and physically fit is underrated so so much. And this is true because we tend not to value our health the same way we value money forgetting that health itself is wealth. We don't know how privelleged we are to even breath freely until we have a simple catarrh. The truth is you are happier when healthy than when sick and many people do not have a privilege of a healthy body.
4. MEANINGFUL WORK.
Another source of happiness would be doing a work you are passionate about, not just for the pay but for the sense of Fulfilment you drive from it. A job is something we most times have to do for the rest of your life till retirement. We spend a greater portion of our day at work. Nothing drains life out of a person like waking up every morning to do a work he detest.
5. SELF ACTUALIZATION.
Three days ago, I made a post about The Biggest Reward of Success where I pointed out that the biggest reward of success is the feeling that you are growing. Self actualization as a source of happiness here is talking about the feeling of becoming what you have always dreamt of. The happiness here comes from a greater sense of self worth and increase in self esteem. However, most people do not really achieve everything they want to be as man would always want more.