It is everyone’s life mission to be happy. Every sentient being wants happiness and a good life. And so it is also our life’s mission to develop that happiness, for and from ourselves, from within. It is unfortunate that we live in a world where society has brainwashed us that new, pretty, fancy things will bring us happiness. That our life would be incomplete without the latest trending gadgets, cars, clothes, and even foods. We spend hundreds and thousands of dollars to be part of the status-quo, to fit in, and make sure we’re on the same trending page as the rest of the world.
Are we happy with all that? Yes, for a hot minute. Only until the latest gadgets is released, next year’s model car is for sale, and the new season clothing line has come and gone before we’ve even realized it exists. We have this completely false assumption that these “things” bring us real happiness, that they have this magical way of taking all our dissatisfactions of the world away. Because they don’t.