What makes a person truly happy?🤔"Steve Obgujah"

in life •  7 years ago  (edited)

You know this woman?

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She’s one of the most influential singers in the world.

She has survived eight boyfriends in the last nine years.

You know this woman?

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A former Secretary of State and former First Lady of the US, among others, she’s apparently one of the most accomplished politicians in the world.

She has written a bad chapter in her story into a whole book — a memoir blaming herself, Sanders, Trump, Obama, both major parties, the contestants, Americans, America, and Russia, for 2016.

2016 - just one year out of her forty year-old, memorable political career.

You know this man?

On Twitter.

Muslims are at risk. DACA is in trouble. For the pursuit of happiness.

King Solomon was the wisest and the wealthiest human that ever lived.

He probably enjoyed the most number of women.

Easily the happiest human in history.

He got everything he wanted, anytime he wished.

He had it all.

And had it all together.

Talk about “happiness” in every sense of the word.

However, after living life, after figuring it out, he had this to say to all of us:

“Everything is meaningless,” says the Teacher, “completely meaningless.”

So in a world where everything - in and of themselves - is vanity,

In a world that is riddled with noise, frustrated by bitter sweetness, and overtaken in a helpless rat race to nowhere,

The only chance to rediscover happiness is to cultivate MEANING.

Your privileges, your pursuits, your achievements, your endowments, your experiences, your expectations, your very existence — these all continue to rub you with Life's most persistent question:

“What meaning are you building with them?”

And like Passion, you don’t find it. You cultivate it. The world harvests it.

Then it yields returns.

Happiness.

Giving meaning to stuff — instead of seeking it from them — is what makes a person truly happy.

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