I will be happy when I…

Buy a house
Buy the car of my dreams
Go on holiday
Get married
Have kids

The truth is…

There will be always more, more to achieve, more to explore, more to do, more to buy, more to learn, it is endless. Although there will never be more of this single moment of your life. This is all you truly have, this is all that you may ever have, because we just don’t know, if we will have a future.

So, the power of happiness is based on the right here and know, right in this very present moment. You could be having the time of your life, doing the most exciting and tremendous things, or just having another evening watching Netflix with your loved ones or enjoying yourself doing nothing special really.

But, owing this very moment of your life can give you more contentment in life than you can imagine. Live in the present. Life doesn’t have to be fantastic every day in order to be good. It is about the simple fact of being, meaning that we are human beings, we may remind ourselves about it from time to time, stop our automatic pilot for a while, the crazy standards society puts on our shoulders that we think we must keep doing non-stop, buying, learning, achieving etc, etc.

There is nothing wrong with having goals, projects, or looking forward to getting a new handbag or car, however, more than anything, we need to meet our essence of being as well.

I think happiness is constantly put into the perspective that it means, excitement, pleasure, joy, abundance, wealth. However happiness can also be, and I strongly believe that, happiness is peace, be at peace, when you are able to only be.
The rest will be so pretty small in comparison to being, being this person you are, the unique human being, in this entire world, in this life full of surprises, good and bad ones, full of qualities and flaws as well.

People are mostly living waiting for the extraordinary to feel happy, when in fact the most extraordinary truly lives in the ordinary.
Sorry to disappoint you, but if you live your life waiting to be content and happy then… You are faded to spend your entire life unhappy or discontent. Because the idea of this so much desired tomorrow, “this when…”, it will never stop and ‘this when’ will never arrive, because you will be waiting for it forever, until your last day.

It is very common that people work so hard for something and when they finally get what they have dreamed of, they can’t even celebrate it properly, because just a few minutes after getting their great achievement they are again, living for the next thing, for when they get the next step or worried how to get it, the whole process starts again.

Therefore, you keep thinking that your happiness is still a bit further up the hill and when you get there, to the top, you will get all the joy, then you can have fun and you will be fulfilled and happy. Although those things are actually not the rewards you might get when… those things are the fundamental elements to create a life that is worth living. No, it is not about that toxic positivity.

No, life is not perfect, sometimes it can be exceptionally hard on us. It is about being aware that life is finite and be realistic that you can make it worth living. You can practice living in the present and being more content, rather than living a delusional dream of what it could be or what it will be one day. It is about being realistic and still able to enjoy life, with all the odds it may have/bring towards us. So, take the power and make your magic. You deserve a happy peaceful life.