Reflecting on Happiness
On World Mental Health Day, I took some time today to think about 'happiness' meant to me. It's something I've been chasing despite not having a clear vision of what it was. Realising what it meant to me, what it is to me today and thinking about it changed the way I looked at the world around me. I realise that my definition of what happiness is has changed over the years and it keeps expanding these days (which I hope is a good sign). A few years back, I'd set extremely unrealistic expectations for what 'happiness' meant to me. I began looking for an abstract emotion that I had crafted in my...