Three Keys to a Happy Life
Three Keys to a happy life Everyone wants to live a happy life. But where does happiness come from? Buddha said "Life is a creation of the mind." Shakespeare put it this way when he said "There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so." Therefore, the first key or the most important key to a happy life I would say is Positive Thinking.
Maybe all of us have heard of this famous question: is the glass half-full or half-empty? An optimist observes what is in the glass – the full half, because he focuses on what he has. On the other hand, a pessimist observes what is not in the glass – the half empty because he focuses on what he doesn’t have. When we always think of what we don’t have and what we are losing, we never feel happy. Furthermore, negative thinking can take a lot of time and too much emotional energy, which absolutely does not lead to a happy life.
In addition, positive thinking makes us have a feeling of excitement about something pleasant or exciting that we know is going to happen. Such a feeling is anticipation. No matter what our circumstances are, if we have something to look forward to, we bring happiness into our life well before the event actually takes place. In fact, sometimes the happiness of anticipation is greater than the happiness of the actual experience itself. With this in mind, we may say if the future holds no pleasant promise - it's very hard to be happy.
However, sometimes unrealistic anticipation may get us lost. So we need to simplify in order to stay positive. This is my second key to a happy life – simplification.
Every day we often rush through things, trying to get them done, trying to finish as much as we can. We pass quickly through one destination and then move into the next. At the end of each day, we’re probably too exhausted and too stressed out to even notice the simple things that can make us happy. For example, maybe some of us have such experience. When we travel to the other cites or countries with
Maybe all of us have heard of this famous question: is the glass half-full or half-empty? An optimist observes what is in the glass – the full half, because he focuses on what he has. On the other hand, a pessimist observes what is not in the glass – the half empty because he focuses on what he doesn’t have. When we always think of what we don’t have and what we are losing, we never feel happy. Furthermore, negative thinking can take a lot of time and too much emotional energy, which absolutely does not lead to a happy life.
In addition, positive thinking makes us have a feeling of excitement about something pleasant or exciting that we know is going to happen. Such a feeling is anticipation. No matter what our circumstances are, if we have something to look forward to, we bring happiness into our life well before the event actually takes place. In fact, sometimes the happiness of anticipation is greater than the happiness of the actual experience itself. With this in mind, we may say if the future holds no pleasant promise - it's very hard to be happy.
However, sometimes unrealistic anticipation may get us lost. So we need to simplify in order to stay positive. This is my second key to a happy life – simplification.
Every day we often rush through things, trying to get them done, trying to finish as much as we can. We pass quickly through one destination and then move into the next. At the end of each day, we’re probably too exhausted and too stressed out to even notice the simple things that can make us happy. For example, maybe some of us have such experience. When we travel to the other cites or countries with