Why do we constantly ask what we want and what we get but never ask the most important question? How are we truly feeling? I have mentioned it before, but in this case, I will quote Heath Ledger when he once said, “Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.”
As I read the quote earlier this week, I realized that we put aside our happiness to become the best and get everything we want, but is that truly fulfilling? Is that the means of our happiness? Why have we concluded that happiness is bought and materialistic? Are we so numb to the simplicity of joy that we settle for what everybody else considers happiness? It is as if we are living in this type of cult. We follow the rules, life, and patterns of everybody else because we don’t know any other way to do it, and we think that because one person is happy with what they have, we will be happy as well.
I also realized that if we do have a grocery list and go to the supermarket, are we buying for other people or ourselves? We need to learn how to differentiate and separate our lives from others because we have been accustomed to following rules, and what do people say? Rules are meant to be broken…
So start creating your list of things you want, your grocery list, and stop being so pressured into becoming the person you are not or living the life you don’t want to live. We have to break out of that bubble. I invite you to put aside for one second your pre-established beliefs and make your own list, question what you truly want to buy at the supermarket.
Z.
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