Summary
In this article I call on you to imitate children in their simplicity to live in the present and be happy. Discover for yourself the relationship between detachment and self-love as the basis for your happiness and some practical recommendations to get out of the routine and be happy.
What to do to be happy?
We could start by defining happiness or by finding a definition for it. We could say that Happiness is a positive state of mind and no more.
However, perhaps there is no consensus on what happiness is, some define it as " a state of mind that occurs in the person when they believe they have reached a desired and good goal."
Aristotle said that: "We all agree that we want to be happy, but as soon as we try to clarify how we can be happy, discrepancies begin."
Indeed, for a mother, happiness can be seeing her children grow up and when they grow up and leave, she is filled with sadness and she runs out of reasons to live. For a lover, happiness can be to share with his girlfriend and the day that she has to go to a work convention for two or three days he feels like dying a little.
Happiness should be a higher concept that involves an interrelation between inner peace and social being.
If you worry about reaching a certain goal to be happy, then you are wasting time to be happy and may need to observe the children. Children are happy because they live in the present, they do not care about the paradigms that adults live in and their hearts are healthy, they do not lie or pretend.
So what do you do to be happy ?
Just like the definition of happiness, you can also find many answers about what to do to be happy.
My advice is to start by observing children and rediscovering the child that lives in you, stay away from other people's problems and face yours with responsibility and detachment without forgetting that as a social being, you interact with others and many of your actions affect them. they and your world, our planet. As social beings, the people around us love us and increase our happiness or also affect us with their decisions and actions.
Allow the love of others to reach you to increase your happiness but do not become attached to it or allow your happiness to depend on others, even if they are your loved ones. If you wish good for the beings you love, the best gift you can give them is to love yourself above all else, because in this way you can reflect your love in a natural way and affect them positively.
To be happy, change your routine, get away from the things that afflict your heart, exercise, read a book, do not depend on the love of others, love God and give thanks to him every day of your life, choose in a disciplined way a moment of the day for meditation, develop the capacity for self-evaluation but do not be too rude with yourself, allow yourself to err and move forward, treat yourself to a foot massage or a visit to the “spa”, dedicate a song… it doesn't have to be to your crush (a) Why not your parents? Look in the mirror and talk to yourself about nice and positive things, say something nice to someone else.
Love life, love yourself and smile.
