Often, I notice I like to play the short game. I believe we all do.
One common area we do this in, is in emotions and we don't even notice it.
For example, I bet you have put tons of time into creating little moments of happiness in your life.
We all constantly try to create as many moments of happiness as possible through out our life. So, each week we plan get togethers, lunches, events, or activities that create those one or two hours where we are happy right?
Then, when someone asks you, "are you happy?" you can shrug your shoulders and say, "yeah I think so". This is the short-term game I am talking about. For the week, month, or maybe year, you did enough little moments to give you a dose of happy thoughts making you consider yourself generally happy.
Now let me ask you something.
Honestly, how happy did you feel reading that last paragraph? Or did you feel a little gross and ashamed that you maybe only consider the weekend as a time when you are "happy"?
Now I am not saying that life is 100% rainbows and sunshine, I understand there are very real and reasonable times to not be happy.
But this is where I think our minds get confused.
Stop considering happiness as a short-term game. I challenge you, consider it a long-term game.
Fuck making moments of happiness, I could plan a lunch and have the whole thing go to shit and what now? My two hours of planned happiness are just out the fucking window?
I don't like the fact that so many little things could control whether I am happy or not.
Happiness is a long-term game. Fuck a moment of it, start creating a lifetime of it.
I don't want to create weekends where I am happy with my life, I want to create years on end where I am happy with my life.
EVEN WHEN BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING
We can live a lifetime of happiness. We just need to shift the way we see the emotion. It is totally possible if you become aware of how your mind interprets happiness. Is it something you must create in little moments each week? Or is it something you always have and hold because you know you are living life to your potential.
Stop thinking in these short-term scenarios, its bland and boring and you know it because you felt it when you read the paragraph about it. Live extreme, think about a lifetime of happiness and plan for that.
Don't go day by day reacting to life on the fly and hoping that most of the things in it are happy.
Start planning for a lifetime of happiness.
Plan little moments to supplement, but don't make them your full diet.
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