1/22/07: Halfway to Happy

If you cared about how you feel half as much as you cared about what others think or do, you’d be more than halfway to happy.

We all say we want happiness yet we spend our time doing things that block our happiness. We concern ourselves with what others think, do or say. We try to please others and impress them, or we put them down and judge them, all in an effort to inflate our egos.

But happiness doesn’t come from other people, nor does it come from inflating our egos. Happiness comes from our commitment to it, our allowance of it. We cannot allow happiness into our lives if we are spending our time and energy focusing on what others are doing, saying or thinking about us. Nor can we allow happiness into our lives by constantly feeding our egos.

Let others be. Let them think what they will think, do what they will do and say what they will say. And let your ego be what it is. Simply notice it and refuse to feed it.

When how you feel becomes a priority over the activities of others and the activities of your own ego, you will discover the happiness you seek.