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The Forbidden Fruit of Hidden Happiness
“I want to be happy.”
“Happiness is all I want.”
“Why can’t I become happy?”
Those are very common thoughts and sentences we can here in our life. So why is it that it looks like nobody can reach it?
In itself, it is such a simple goal to have. You will never find anybody telling you happiness is pointless and you don’t need to be happy.
We all realize how important happiness is and yet it rarely becomes a goal per se. Does that mean there is nothing we can do to obtain it?
I believe we can act towards happiness and it should be among everyone’s goals.
However, unfortunately, there are no actionable steps we can take to get closer to being happy. Indeed what makes one happy most probably won’t be the same as the next person.
Still, that actually makes this common to everybody: Your happiness is just yours. It cannot be shared.
Of course, this doesn’t mean it cannot impact positively people around you but that’s pretty much how far it goes in that sense.
But now there’s one trick to realize.
Happiness is a side hustle.
If there are no actionable steps towards happiness and it cannot be shared fully, this simply means it is a…
