One of my earliest memories as a child is being in a sweet shop waiting to pay and seeing the man before me pull out several pound coins to pay for his selection of chocolate.
Only having a small amount of pocket money myself, I stood there in amazement at how much he was able to buy with all of those gold coins. It was like my own little Charlie and the Chocolate Factory moment. I couldn’t wait to grow up and have lots of money like this man, so that I too could buy myself as much chocolate as I wanted.
I’d be really happy then.
What actually happened though, is that although I grew up and my pocket contained these same gold coins I’d once dreamed about, my focus was now on other things. I would be happy when…
- I got an amazing job where I was both appreciated and paid loads of money
- When everyone in my family got along effortlessly and lovingly
- I travelled to the most beautiful locations around the world
- When I got married (this was a big one)
- When I got divorced (the above didn’t work out so well 1st time)
- When I earned a blue belt in jiujitsu
- Etc etc…
We can innocently spend most of our lives living by this ‘I’ll be happy when…’ type thinking. We believe that something outside of us needs to happen in order for us to be happy and feel like we’ve made it in life. And when the things on our list don’t happen, or don’t unfold as we wanted them to, we can easily start to think and believe that we’ve failed in life and in our mission to be happy. Instead of feeling happy, we end up feeling lost.
However we’re only ever lost in an illusion.
And it’s one that we’ve made up entirely ourselves. And because we’ve made it up ourselves, it’s super easy to let go of it forever and experience real, lasting happiness that doesn’t require anything outside of us to happen, in order to show up in our lives.
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