Do What Makes You Happy, but What Makes You Happy?
by Michael Yang on October 15, 2009
We get pulled both ways.
Some say do what makes you happy, others say do what you “have to”, do the practical thing.
What’s the right answer? Maybe the first step is to realize that the answer won’t come from someone else. We can take all the advice in the world but at that most important moment, the decision is ours.
Chasing pleasure will never fill us the way experiencing joy will. Money, cars, nice things are great. In fact they’re awesome! But these are things that you “have”. And whether you have or have not, it all depends on what you do or don’t do.
But then again, what you do or don’t do is all based on who you “be”.
Are you chasing something you feel like you don’t have? It’s an illusion. You can have anything when you realize you are the source of its creation.
If you are the source of creation in everything in your life, will you choose to create things that make you happy, that bring you joy? Or will you choose to create situations and outcomes where you aren’t happy? You have more influence over a situation that you know.
Find that feeling of joy. Could everything at a specific moment fall away, and all there is is you and that feeling of fulfillment, happiness, and contentment? That is joy.
Figure out what gives you that, and that’s what you do.
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