Define Your Happiness

Someone once asked me what do I, and everyone in the whole world wants. I answered then, happiness. Everyone wants to be happy.

I still think the same now, but my definition of happiness is different. In fact I think everyone’s definition of happiness SHOULD be different. If you’re re-using someone else’s definition, most likely people you are not happy, especially if you have different values. For example I used to try a few businesses, and tried to join the trend of making or working in startups, because I think I would be happy because I would be using my brains and making money while doing it. Lots of money. But then I realised I don’t really like talking to people and the stress of thinking about money and always looking out through ways to make money from anything, takes the joy out of most things I do.

I did realise that I like to learn how things work, both technically/engineering wise and financially, but the bliss of just learning without monetising it is my kind of happiness. I now try to avoid blogs or podcasts that tell you “How to make that FIRST million!” because they simply make me feel like I’m a failure. I mean I would love to have more money and not worry about it, but I don’t mind not having that million, but being to learn about (almost) whatever I want.

So what’s your definition of happiness?