If
we are being honest, happiness is elusive. Happiness is one of the most
essential things in everyone’s life but few people actually know what it really
is let alone having the luck to experience it on regular basis.
You
know what makes it even harder to accomplish? The fact that it is subjective,
what makes you happy is not necessarily what makes people around you happy. The
varieties make it harder for human race to lock in one or two easily achievable
things that guarantees happiness.
There
are few things however that are considered to be a source of happiness to most
people. To some their happiness springs from love, others receive the sense of
happiness through financial freedom or the excess of it and to some being of
service is what really sparks them.
Happiness
is one of the most discussed topics in the world, people over the years have
tried to crack the code, find some sort of DIY to happiness. Seminars, books,
movies have tried to depict what happiness means to so many, the path that some
people took to the elusive happiness land. There are millions of stories of so
many people striving to grab happiness just to be left with nothing of sort.
The
easiest form of happiness is attained through family; that’s how I found one
piece of my happiness. This type of happiness however, has its ups and downs,
especially when you feel like you are not doing enough. As much as family
brings you happiness, there are series of lows that you are going to go through
when life hits you, at the same time your family tends to be your anchor
whenever the waves hits your boat hard. They are the support system and the
foundation essential to achieve happiness.
For
generations, the product of your energy has been measured in financial
compensation and we’ve all obsessed on how much we are earning in whatever we
do. To so many people, money is a source of happiness or what most would
consider highs. Monetary gains provides a certain type of happiness that never
lasts past spending what you’ve earned; or in most cases it’s a fleeting
feeling just before you face the realities of all responsibilities you have
waiting for you.
Therefore,
financial high will last depending on two factors; the amount of money you have
versus responsibilities you have to take care of. It is safe to say that
happiness built upon financial wellbeing will be tanked anytime your desired
financial strength is in jeopardy. I’ve had that form of happiness, the
happiness of earning; the happiness of having cash in my pocket, this happiness
almost always came with a certain level of confidence that disappeared as fast
as the money did. It took to lose my job and life with no purpose at all, the
life of uncertainty about a daily bread (Spoiler alert, God doesn’t just drop
them breads, even if you pray) to realize the difference between happiness and
what I used to feel whenever I earned some cash.
Well,
after I got robbed of my highs, the lows followed. For almost three years now,
my biggest source of inspiration and spark of happiness has been a tiny angel
called Casper; a son whose smile is enough to light up the darkest of days. The biggest part of my happiness was set but
still there was a void, the void that was filled in unexpected place. Almost
four months ago I started helping on social media, the decision was out of two
things; First, I needed to find anything to do, I needed to feel like am being
productive not just wasting my life away. The second reason was what the brand
represented. I am a reader and I always get excited to interact with people who
have the same interest so a chance to manage Twitter account for Bookmart where
I will be interacting with hundreds of readers while expanding my knowledge on
not only reading culture in the country but also getting to know more
literatures seemed like a perfect combo. It wasn’t a financial driven decision,
it was a change driven move; probably one of my best decisions to date.
The
past three months have been by far the happiest moments in what we may call a career.
It is rivaled by old days when I accomplished a dream of becoming a radio
presenter. The happiness I found in what am currently doing comes from the
feeling of service that no amount of money can substitute. Every single day I
wake up looking forward to interacting with potential clients and readers most
of them in Tanzania. The excitement of these followers is contagious and so is
their support.
In
this work, I’ve found happiness so full that I am ready to take on other
opportunities that may not be as exciting. The happiness I take from Bookmart
will ease up any of the headaches I’ll have to go through in the name of money.
Most importantly, whatever I earn will therefore no longer be my high; it will
just be a token of survival, something I receive to help me get by. Money is a
great supplement in many instances, it helps us take care of so many things but
unfortunately, in itself it’s quite a crappy source of happiness.
I
hope you find happiness in whatever you are doing. I hope you dive deep and
give yourself a chance to find what excites you in the most rand place,
remember no one has ever cracked happiness code and no one really knows where
you’ll find yours; you deserve it.
