Choose Happiness
Choose Happiness
By Sewa Singh
What does everyone want?
To be happy, to love?
It is a fundamental choice how we live and it becomes our habit.
You decide what you want to create — love and happiness within you, in your relationship (with your spouse), and in all of your relationships (personal - family, community & professional).
The first step is to choose love and happiness and to set the intention to create this experience in your life. If you are not currently experiencing love and happiness within yourself, and in your relationships, you may feel doubtful of the possibility.
At this time in the United States we are having great challenges with the basic human experience of attraction, love and happiness. 50% of all families are step-families and about 67% of second marriages with children end in divorce. This doesn’t account for all the painful failed love relationships that may have come before a marriage.
A Lifetime of Happiness?
For many, the concept of a lifetime of happiness with your beloved is some kind of fantasy, and at worse, a cruel set up for failure. One of the key contributors to our culture’s weakness around creating happiness is our collective degradation of the once sacred value of keeping one’s word. We love to be entertained by fantasy dramas about the past that feature elevated honor and loyalty. That curiosity is formed because we no longer demand this from ourselves. One result is that we seek short term satisfaction in love. Short term happiness is not happiness, it is a lesson in repeating loss.
The Cure
The cure for this imbalance is to live by an elevated set of values and principles that include:
Always keeping one’s word.
Having deep honor and respect for others.
And behaving in a way that aligns with these concepts.
Technology has made it much easier for us to lie, mislead, insult and disrespect others, typically without consequence. This simply brings us further from our ability to experience love and create long lasting happiness. It increases desires and strategies to create fleeting satisfaction which withers over time..
It Starts with Commitment
Fortunately, there is a formula to correct our habits which can be utilized by each individual. It starts with your commitment to learn, make changes to your behaviors, to create the foundation, and to relate to bring the future you want to create life-long love and happiness.
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