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How We Can Take Back Our Happiness

The Number One Trick That Worked For Me

A lot of people on this planet are struggling to find happiness these days.

I truly hope you’re not one of them.

But in case happiness is a bit of a struggle for you, I hope this piece will nudge you in the right direction.

Happiness is a topic dear to my heart.

Because suicide and therefore depression, is rising in developed and developing countries alike.

We, the ‘lucky few’ in the developed world, seem to think that depression and suicide in developing countries is easy to explain.

Those poor sobs don’t have access to the shiny gadgets that unbridled capitalism brings in its wake, no wonder they’re depressed.

That seems to be the prevailing mood among the first world cheering squad.

But the rise of mental issues in our ‘developed world’ utterly ruins that argument.

Most people in the first world are flooded with cheap, shiny gadgets and that doesn’t fight off depression at all.

Or to put it in the immortal words of the court jester:

‘Emperor, your people are fat but they’re not happy.’

By the way, what is happiness really?

It’s an easy question to ask but a hard one to answer.

In fact, it’s so hard to answer that question that most people don’t even bother with the effort.

If you don’t believe me, ask some random people if they’re happy and inevitably someone will answer:

‘What do you think? I just got a promotion and I’m moving to a bigger house, of course I’m happy!’

They’re cheating the game by ignoring the happiness conundrum altogether.

Instead they’re using their material possessions, secular titles or minor achievements in the rat-race as a substitute for happiness.

It’s a recipe for disaster and the records clearly show that.

Achievement in the outer realm can never be a substitute for true inner happiness.

It looks like we forgot about that.

And that didn’t happen by accident.

Something actively forces us to ignore the idea of inner happiness and that’s because they want us to be unhappy.

Okay, Molly, are you going to talk conspiracy BS again?

Well, maybe. 😄

But it’s the cold, hard truth that happy people don’t consume as much as unhappy people do.

So knowing that, it shouldn’t surprise us now that the shiny gadgets are not making us truly happy.

That’s by design.

If those magical contraptions would bring us everlasting happiness, we would not buy the next bigger, cheaper and even shinier gadget.

That would be the end of the cabal and that’s why they want us to keep consuming and why they’re even actively making us unhappy.

When we’re unhappy, we try to fill that void with cheap things that give us a short reprieve and then, after a while, the crippling anxiety inevitably kicks back in.

And the cycle starts all over again.

So how do we break the cycle?

It’s the oldest question in the book.

Breaking that cycle and finding true everlasting inner happiness is what all the great teachers and gurus in history tried to do.

I’m not that arrogant to claim that I have found the clear and indisputable answer.

But I found what works for me.

And that is not playing their game any more.

What game are you talking about, Molly?

The game of diluting your attention.

Back in the day, peasants were distracted maybe once a month by commercial entities.

But after the Industrial Revolution, commercial distractions were getting more common.

And when television and radio appeared, we were getting distracted every day and even every hour.

Cue the age of social media when we’re distracted every second.

It’s a race to the bottom and we are the losers.

I want to win this game by not playing it.

That’s why I don’t allow the master attention grabbers to steal my attention any more.

I’m trying to win back my attention by focusing on my inner realm and that is one way to reach true inner happiness.

You can win this game too by realizing one thing:

Nobody is going to grant you true happiness.

It’s up to you to take it back.

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