The Recipe for Happiness

Many people strive day and night to achieve happiness without really making headway. There has an explosion of research on happiness and the question is that is happiness that elusive?
The key to understanding what happiness really entails is understanding the real, conscious or unconscious causes of unhappiness.

Unhappiness has many definitions that suit it but to streamline the definition, it is a condition that the heart is at its lowest ebb and the person who is unhappy is really the opposite of what he really is. Unhappiness has many friends among which are fear, anxiety, stress, mental illness and isolation. All these are just few of the friends and personal aide of unhappiness. These friends are the mostly the companions of unhappy people.

The Causes of Unhappiness

Many people worldwide have a wrong notion about the keys to happiness. Identify these and avoid them like a snake.

Greed is a well-known friend of many people. As long as greed has its grip on you, it does not let go of its victims easily without putting up a serious fight with it.  When this is an invited guest, unhappiness will come and reside with such person. Such can never be satisfied even if such person has everything. Identify this vice and avoid it so that you can remain happy.
    
Selfishness is next on the heel of greed. When you live just for the sake of you and you alone, irrespective of what you do or acquire, there can never be fulfillment and when there is no fulfillment, unhappiness is already an invited guest in such person’s life. Ones unhappiness secure an accommodation in such person’s life, the friends of unhappiness will come in as well. Identify this vice and avoid it.
    
An Ungrateful person cannot be happy. Such is ungrateful because he is of the opinion that irrespective of whatever is done for such person, he always sees the other side and will be dissatisfied and what comes next, unhappiness. It comes with a full bang! With its weapons of war. Identify this and avoid it.
    
Loneliness alone has a record of claiming many of its victims. This enemy has won a lot of awards. When it comes in invited or otherwise, it makes its victim feel as if no one ever care and this makes such person resent even the person that cares. The eventual fate of such person is unhappiness and its accomplices.
    
Excessive Accumulation of Money is another pretender that denies many people of their happiness. It has added many victims to its diary than victors. It is good to have money but when it becomes an obsession, them you are unconsciously on the journey to the road of unhappiness. Being wealthy is not a problem but a mad rush at it is.