Articles

Can you be permanently happy?

Can you be permanently happy?

In the broadest terms, my research suggests that lasting happiness is attainable, if you are prepared to do the work. Much like with permanent weight loss and fitness, becoming lastingly happier demands making some permanent changes, requiring effort and commitment every day of your life.

How can I give myself happiness?

11 Simple Ways to Make Yourself Happy Every Day

  1. Commit to doing one nice thing for yourself every day.
  2. Listen to yourself.
  3. Forgive yourself.
  4. Accept yourself as you are right now.
  5. Eliminate toxic people in your life and workplace.
  6. Prioritize your health.
  7. Stop skipping meals.
  8. Breathe!

Is Happiness a state we can exist in Forever?

Happiness is a temporary high. Like drugs. To think it’s a state we can exist in forever is to think it’s realistic to be high forever, with no comedown. Which isn’t the case.

Are feelings of happiness just temporary?

They’re not fun. But like happiness, they won’t last forever. They too shall pass. They’re simply a moment in the big scheme of time. After all, everything is temporary. Especially feelings. I was one of those girls drugged by the empty promise of consistent happiness.

READ ALSO:   What is the education system like in Pakistan?

Do you strive for endless heaps of glorious happiness?

I used to strive to feel endless heaps of glorious happiness. I was raised to believe that steady, relentless happiness is something that is wildly attainable. Most of us are. Which is why we feel so secretly seeped in shame for not being capable of achieving it.

Is steady happiness achievable?

I was raised to believe that steady, relentless happiness is something that is wildly attainable. Most of us are. Which is why we feel so secretly seeped in shame for not being capable of achieving it. We’re made to believe that one day we will wake up deliriously happy, and BAM, that will be it.