Real happiness from the inside out isn’t for sale and it isn’t dependent upon what we have. You can’t purchase it in the form of material possessions no matter what you’ve been taught to think. You can’t even purchase it when you are spending lots of money to impress someone else.
When your attempt to be happy is dependent upon external sources, i.e. all of the right material possessions or overspending money to look good to others (you might be the person that buys drinks for everyone at the local bar or club), or flaunting a large bank balance, I guarantee that the good feelings that come from that will be short-lived, if at all.
If the material possessions or the money we spend or accumulate actually made us feel happy for real, would our happiness come and go? Would the money we spend give us financial stress? Would we be worried about what others think about what we have? Would we be fearful of losing what we have or devastated if it was lost?
Do the external sources you depend upon to make you feel good actually make you feel good? Or are they just temporary distractions that provide temporary relief from not being as happy as everyone else seems to be?
For example, when you finally get the new car you’ve always wanted are you worried about having enough money to make the monthly payments? And what if it’s not about the money do you freak out when it gets a ding or a scratch? If so, does the new car really make you feel good? How happy are you really?
People who rely upon someone or something outside of themselves for their happiness don’t understand what it’s like to have real happiness from the inside out. They have to have one more of these and another one of those to have the illusion of happiness. Real happiness is not having what you want it’s wanting what you already have…and that is YOU!
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