happiness.

Happiness. That’s a hard word to describe. I once read this My Life is Average post where when this little boy was asked “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, he replied “Happy.” Now obviously from this, this kid understands happiness way better than I do. He knows what being happy is like, and he wants to be able to stay that way for the rest of his life. I think that everyone is guaranteed to their own pursuit of happiness – that’s what being selfish is about. You’re allowed to want to be happy, and you’re allowed to try to be as happy as you possibly can. Because if all you think about is other people’s happiness, how happy can you be? You’re not keeping your own desire in sight, and if you’re not thinking about your own happiness, then it obviously, isn’t going to happen. And if you can’t find your own happiness, then… how’re you going to survive in this world?

People survive in the present world today by being selfish and greedy, and a lot of the times, not caring one fuck about others. They only see their own desires, their own ambitions, and their own happiness. Sometimes, this is the right thing to do, because otherwise, they’d be hurt beyond repair. You have to be happy or try to be happy, and believe that everything’s going to be okay in the end, because otherwise, you wouldn’t survive. You’d just be disappointed over and over again, pushed down over and over again, and broken over and over again. And one day, your human mind and body won’t be able to take it anymore. Because after all, our human bodies and minds aren’t as strong as we think they are. We may be the smartest, but that doesn’t mean our minds and bodies are strong.

But then again, sometimes it might not be the right thing to do. If you only think about your own happiness, how many people are you going to hurt? If you really, seriously think that, other people actually care about your own happiness more than their own; well you’re going to be wrong most of the time. Otherwise we wouldn’t be able to have such an overpopulated and strong human population, because we would’ve died out already since we were too busy concentrating on other people’s survival rather than our own. If you hurt other people while you’re trying to make yourself happy, I want to say to you, you better be looking back on that. Because you NEED other people to survive, and by sacrificing everyone around you for your own happiness, you’re just pushing them away. And in the end, you’re going to end up alone. Things aren’t going to go your way at all if all you know how to do, is hurt others and strive for your own happiness. Your happiness isn’t as important as the general happiness of you and everyone around you.

It might seem like the two past paragraphs that I just wrote, are contradicting and I’m completely being a hypocrite, or whatever. But reality is, they’re both true, and we need to think about both in order to survive and be happy. You have to think about your own happiness as your first and main priority, but then again, there IS such thing as other priorities. That’s why there’s a plural word for “priority”. And those priorities are other people’s happiness. Because you need friends, and you need people to care about you, love you, and make you the happiest you can be. Don’t depend on others for your own happiness, but then again, don’t be completely dependent on yourself for your own happiness.