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Stop Trying To Be Happy

May 15, 2016

I’m sure some of you clicked on the link thinking this has to be clickbait.  No one in their right mind would tell people to stop trying to be happy.  It isn’t clickbait.  That really is the main point of this post.  We all need to stop trying to be happy.  In our culture today we are told that happiness should be the driving force of basically everything we do.  If you are looking for who to marry, you are often told to find someone you are happy with.  When picking a job it should be one that you are happy in.  If you are looking for what college to go to, you need to make sure that you can be happy there.  Same thing for finding a church, deciding where to live, or any other decisions we are trying to make.  Our happiness scale drives our decisions and this is a terrible way to make decisions. [Read more…] about Stop Trying To Be Happy

Posted in: Life Tagged: happiness, happy, joy, love

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