Happiness—to most people—is achieved through contentedness with the life surrounding them. People may say and truly believe they are happy, but in reality they still struggle with negative thoughts or feelings on a day-to-day basis. As human beings, we tend to focus more on harmful memories, rather than those that are positive. If this is true, if humans do have the propensity to endure constant negative thoughts, what evidence is there that proves people trick their minds into thinking they are satisfied with life?
Happiness is a short-lived and fleeting human condition, one that affects people every day of their lives. Human nature indicates an innate need to experience wholeness; however, as a society, we tend to focus on the negative commodities rather than the positive. People never reflect nor remember the magnanimous acts they perform, but they can recall every little detail of something they did wrong. Another reason for the fallacy of happiness comes from the inherent ability for people to hold themselves to a higher standard than others around them. We remember failures more vividly than successes and never let ourselves experience satisfaction. There’s always something we did wrong, but there’s never something we did right. But if we continue to dwell on all the things we do wrong, or never fully succeed in, who is to say we would ever experience happiness at all?
The most challenging question for people in general is, what comes next? After discovering true happiness can never be accepted by our minds, how does someone continue to live? The answer is simple. Happiness is short-lived, but also worth every minute of pure joy you receive. Though mankind may dwell on the sub-sequential ideas in life rather than the positive ones, the feeling of negativity will never quite match that of being positive. Don't be fooled by emptiness, or lack of feeling complete, because one day you'll realize you spent your entire life searching for something that was never truly there in the first place. Life is what you make of it, and in the end, negativity will never go away unless people allow positivity to step in. People are the masters of their own fate, along with their own happiness.
