Our Happiness

External conditions don’t create our happiness. How we frame what’s happening in the moment is what causes our feelings. While stuck in the misguided and depressing paradigm of thinking that joy comes only after some particular condition is met, we let our happiness depend on things outside our control. Realizing the erroneous nature of this helps us shift from hoping we’ll enjoy what comes in the future to learning to appreciate what’s happening right now. We can frighten ourselves by worrying about the future or torture ourselves by regretting the past, but focusing on what’s good now…

Is happiness.