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You Are Unhappy Because You Refuse To Find Your Own Path
“Why is my life not great? Why am I not happy? Why does success keep eluding me? Why am I so miserable?”
I get asked these questions a lot by people every day.
Whenever I get around to answering them I always ask one thing first:
“What do you want?”
The responses always vary but are also always very generalized: Money, fame, love, success, fitness, health, etc.
The reason for this is that most people have never truly thought about what they wanted.
Most people assume that they will be happy once they have the same things that everybody else desires.
What they fail to realize is that everybody else also did not think about it yet!
Asking for life to become amazing if you do not even know what you want is like going to the doctor without knowing what’s wrong.
You simply go there, say you feel unwell, but do not know what being healthy even feels like.
The doctor may then fix your leg, may give you medicine, repair your bones, and give you treatment after treatment for you to still not know whether you are fixed or not.
If you have no goal then you will just wander around, knowing that something is…
