What do you want? It's pretty broad, I know, but overall what is it that you exactly want? We get asked this question all the time, but maybe not in the way I’m talking about. They ask, what do you want to do, what do you want after college, what do you want for lunch, so on and so forth. But what do I want? I want to be happy. It is that simple.
I want to be happy with what I’m doing. Life is too short to not enjoy every single moment. It is also too valuable to waste it away. I don’t want to remember spending the majority of my life in an office working my life away. If I want to travel the world for a couple months, I’ll do it. If I want to quit my four-figure job for the average paying one, I’ll do it. It doesn’t matter if I am making $25,000 or $200,000; as long as I am doing what I love, I will be happy. If there is one thing I have learned: money doesn’t buy happiness. You can have all the money in the world, but if you’re not happy, it’s worthless.
I want to be happy with the people around me. I don’t have time for people who don’t make an effort in my life anymore, so I want to fully focus on the people that want to be in my life when I am at the lowest of lows or the highest of highs. I want to be insanely happy all the time, even in the rough patches of my life. I want to share special moments with one another and reminisce in 10 years about the memories we spent together. I want to do more for my loved ones and make sure they know they are important. Finally, I want people to see that I’m glowing because of how happy I am.
I want to be happy with myself. My mother has always said, “Its time to make you happy now.” She’s right; it is my turn to make myself happy. I want to do more things that I love, like painting, traveling and spending time with friends and family. I want to learn to speak a foreign language like Italian or French, so I can speak it to the locals of those countries. I want to spend two weeks in Australia, snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef. I want to take a spontaneous trip out to California to visit my best friend. This may seem repetitive: I want, I want, I want, but eventually, all those wants will turn into “I dids.”
So, it’s not that I am not happy, I just know I could be overall happier. It is my turn to do more of the things I love, spend time with the people that matter and love every aspect of myself. It is your turn too. Look at the bigger picture of the question and go out and do more of what makes you happy.
