The Importance of Happiness
It was a bittersweet moment for me, though. I was glad to see that my good friend had found something he possessed true passion for, but was a little bit concerned with how these goals were going to be reached, not because I questioned his ability to follow through on his word, but because I had doubts of how he would sustain himself financially while working to attain his expectations. His response was very casual - “I’m not sure, but something will work out”.
His words floored me. I had been at war with myself for the past few weeks about how I should make my own living, not being able to decide whether or not I would end up making the wrong choice and trapping myself in a bad position with a job that I didn’t like. I was honestly almost driven into a depression wondering what would become of my life.
Meanwhile, my good buddy is out setting goals to work towards consisting of things that make him happy. He’d already decided that not knowing what was in store was not an issue. There‘s a popular quote by Arthur Buddhold that sums up this mentality really well - “follow your passion and success will follow” - and I’d heard it probably a million times, but it never sunk in quite like it did when I had this talk with my pal.
It doesn’t take a genius to see that it’s much easier to work with
enthusiasm and love your job when you’re happy in other areas of your life. However, when you get all wrapped up in work and how your future will play out, it’s easy to overlook this simple fact - I sure did. And I paid for it. I became miserable trying to figure out how I would make a living for myself, when really all I had to do was find something that made me happy and wing it from there.- Overall
It’s okay if things change.
It’s okay if things don’t work out as planned.
Learn from it and move forward.
The important thing is simply to be happy while doing it.
