Finding Happiness in Everyday Life

How many of us have this routine nowadays? Wake up early, go to work (office), come home, take supper, then hit the sack early. During working time, we are pressured to the limit that by the time we are home, we still can’t take work off our mind. We bring them even in the bedroom, some even in our dreams (especially the entrepreneurs), we even think about them when we wake up at midnight to pee. Eventually, this wears us down, we become antsy, irritable. We felt burnt and stressed out. We begin to be difficult to get along with. We begin to yell at people and start putting up long faces. Why? because we are being pressed to the limit on a lot of situations.

Friendships are ignored (sometimes broken), love ones are forgotten. In one word, it simply brought the monster-part-out of our personality. Then we tell ourselves “Hey, I need a break!” Well at least some of them have the sense to think of that. Some just continue to work on. Before long, they begin to experience chest pains, acid stomachs, migraines and other discomforts. Some of you (if you still have the time to read this, considering you”re so-so-so busy) will eventually walk away from the scene for a week or two (some can’t even do that thinking “I can’t do it, too much pending works at hand”).

Question here is What kind of life are you living? Of course, you’ll always have a ready answer for that: “I’m working for the future.” What future? 365 days a year, more than 250 days in the office, 52 Saturdays catching up with the other aspect of our lives. Laundry at home, groceries, markets, check-ups, dentists & what else?? That leaves Sundays. We tell ourselves “When things got better, I’ll slacken off a bit.” Problem is on a lot of instances “things have already gotten better” on the financial side.

But how come you still haven’t eased off? In fact the pressures seem to mount even more. There’s this to pay, that to buy, monthly amortizations to payoff (or for businessmen – loans to clear). So here is another is another poser: When do you stop? When is enough? As we go along, we realized that it is really us who can decide when is enough because there will always be problems to solve (even if we tackle every one of them today, come tomorrow there will be mountain loads left and more to come).

Of course stopping doesn’t mean “simply walking away”. We continue with our journey in life. It only means learning to be contented at a certain level and beginning to enjoy life on a daily basis (even hourly basis). It means starting to count our blessings (like checking the miles we covered once in a while). It means balancing our lives and changing the mentality of “if things got better” because in so many cases “things have already gotten better. It’s only our obsession “for more” that’s blocking our realization on it.