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Have you decided to be happy?
You hold the key to your happiness!
We all on this planet have different dreams, goals, wants and needs but if we look for one common thing that we all want, it is happiness. We humans for centuries have always wondered what are the secrets of a happy life, some say a comfortable life can make you happy, yet others propose simplicity having less as the solution to being happy, some say relationships can make you happy, and others say that a life of meaning and purpose is the way to find your happiness.
How does one lead a happy life is ‘a million-dollar question’?
Here is one perspective! During a seminar, speaker asked one of the spouses in the audience, does your wife make you happy? Everyone was surprised by the question and were all ears as his wife waited for his response showing complete confidence on her face. She knew that her husband would say a firm yes, because truly he had never complained about anything during their married life, she, and everyone else around was utterly shocked when her husband answered the question with a resounding NO.
NO, my wife does not make me happy, the wife was baffled but her husband continued. My wife never made me happy and she does not make me happy, it is not her responsibility to make me happy. Whether I’m happy or not is dependent on me I’m the…