Fancy things gives us long lasting happiness?

All the emotions you need are within you right now.

I have had conversations with some of the successful retired business people.

They shared with me how they achieved great success and how great wealth did not provide the long-lasting happiness they thought they should simultaneously gain.

I used to have this idea of life: I will be happy if I get this; I will be satisfied if I have that. 

I realised all these pleasant feelings are like the wind. They come, then they go away.

Suppose we spend too much time chasing particular material things due to the false belief that we need them to feel a certain way, as company advertising suggests every single day on TV. In that case, we may miss out on other things that may be more important to us.

If we don't know who we are and what we want, other people will decide for us.

I then realised that all the moments of emotions are choices. We can choose to feel proud of ourselves when we achieve any little task that is considered difficult for us in different stages of life. The secret is that we strive to be better than yesterday compared to our old selves.


We don't need the validation of others to feel happy or proud by making statements in any form.

If we can choose to be happy in any phase of life and love whatever stage we are in, we will have more chances to enjoy every stage of life, not just wait for that day to come once a particular dream is achieved.