You can be happy with a quiet life

Some people know from their childhood what they are going to be when they grow up, what they are going to be “when they grow up.” Others find it a little more difficult to decide their path, but most, if not all, go through the same thing: what am I going to do with my life. Being happy is then outlined by achieving a goal. Few will tell you that when they grow up they want to have a quiet life. In fact, what kind of goal is that?

Our culture seems to be intensely focused on passion and dreams. For example, if you look at the most popular shows on television you will notice that they are the ones in which people compete for the opportunity to live their dreams.

It seems that the idea that success, being first, being more than anyone else, achieving what no one has achieved before, fulfilling a dream is what we should do. Nobody tells us the price that we often have to pay for it, much less that we can have other objectives. Having a quiet life is also an option.

The ego’s constant desire to be special

Having a gift and talent is not always a blessing, it does not necessarily make you happy. In today’s society it seems that, if you do something well, you have to exploit it, make it available to whoever wants to judge it and make a living from it (and, incidentally, allow others to do it too). They sell us the idea that this talent makes us special and that we need to show it to the world.

The same happens with people with great intellectual capacity. In one way or another, the more intelligent a person is, the more they are pushed to “have a great career” or study something more complex. Although it may seem like a lie, the options are reduced, because so much talent cannot be “wasted” for studies. You can’t waste so much talent being happy.

Not getting everything you want can be a blessing

It’s easy to dream of a happy and wonderful life, full of professional and personal recognition, great luxuries that you can afford thanks to your great work and a large number of opportunities to have a dream life, the kind we see on television. The truth is that we usually base ourselves on that when setting our goals. We believe it has to be that way.

But many times we become so obsessed with getting what we want or what is expected of us that we forget about many things that remain along the way. In this search for success we become burdened with stress, our personal relationships are affected by the achievement of these objectives and it is easy to neglect our emotional and even spiritual side.

Surely you can think of many examples of people who are at the top, who have managed to reach spectacular levels of success, who are leaders in their profession, but who live at the limit of their physical strength and sanity, not to mention your health. People who are subject to great pressure and who, for one reason or another, have no choice but to continue like this, despite everything, they have no option to change.

But I’m sure you also know of people who, for whatever reason, stopped pursuing their goals to change their lives and who gained from the change. or that they simply had to stop what they were doing. That’s who this quote refers to.

The key here is to be flexible to take the blows and take advantage of failure to grow internally, to look deeper into oneself and not just beyond. What do you want from life, to be or to have? Accepting the cards that life deals you can allow you to play an exceptional game.

The fundamental purpose of life is to seek happiness

Is being happy really a viable goal in our environment? Deep down, we all know that it is difficult, at least under the conditions imposed by today’s society and with the general tendency we have to complicate our lives. Simplifying some things can be a great opportunity to seek that longed-for happiness.

Each person must find the way they want to find that path, without feeling guilty for taking one path or another and respecting the path that others decide to take.

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