How can I be happy?

The story is a hypothetical scenario in which a person, “who,” questions the meaning of life and wonders how it can be happy.

In the beginning, I was really angry with myself. Outraged from being directed from point A to point B by something called fate or destiny or whatever else it may want to call itself. I thought that if this kind of thing kept going on, there’s no way I could ever get anything done!

I tell you, at first I wanted to flip over the card that had ‘life’ written on its face and say ‘trick!’ but after a while, I got tired of shouting angry words at nothing so I just let go…

But what did letting go actually mean? Did it mean I was going to stop living? No, I wasn’t going to stop. That’s why I have been struggling so hard these days!

I want to change. But I’m not sure what it is that has been keeping me from changing myself. It can’t be a lack of willpower because ever since the time I was born, there hasn’t been a single thing that I’ve wanted that didn’t happen. So then why do my insides feel this way, as if they were being held down by something heavy and firm?

Is it because…of my own personal wish? […]

Ways to be happy:

• Life has absolutely no meaning, so you need to create meaning yourself. There’s no ‘correct answer’ so don’t be afraid to try something new, and change your life for the better bit by bit!
• You can separate life into five categories. The first category is family, friends, and loved ones. The second is the people around you at work or school. The third is hobbies that you can do alone or with other people (love affairs are fine too). The fourth is your dreams. And finally, there are your ideas for the future that include things like society as well as money-related matters because it’s not going to be easy changing jobs or making a lot of money on your own if you don’t have anything prepared ahead of the time.
• You need to know what you’re good at and what your strong points are, as well as your weak points. And then you need to take all of those things and polish them so that someday you can apply them in the right direction.
• Afterward, once you’ve got your life together, living comfortably is pretty much guaranteed so don’t regret it! But if there’s anything bothering you inside, I think working hard towards achieving certain goals will help ease that tension because even though they were just empty desires, to begin with, now they have become objectives that must be reached before one can ‘move on’. Of course, I’m not saying you should simply abandon your feelings but there are times when the only thing left to do is deal with them maturely and continue life living happily.

Normally, life has no meaning. You create it for yourself.

But in my case I have absolutely zero motivation to do that so I just made something up myself…I guess this is what they call the ‘freedom of the self.’

When you are writing a story, there are four things you can’t forget about. Namely, characters, setting, conflict, and resolution. The character’s personality should be well-made but also flexible enough to allow changes or else how would the main character grow? The setting must be realistic but not too realistic which means there need to be things like ‘dreams’ or ‘wishes’ in order to move forward! If the conflict isn’t strong enough then there’s no point in moving onto the next scene and there must be a sense of resolution before the story is over so that things become more than just a bunch of loose plot points put together.

It’s really hard to write these things down but I’m sure if you try, you’ll figure out how they work…but it doesn’t necessarily mean this will make you happy. I’ve been thinking about this for a while now and I think the thing that makes you happy is something you can’t put into words. In other words, it’s something ‘invisible’.

Other than those four things, there are three more things I want to say:

1) If you’re going to start this again from scratch then do everything exactly as you did before but with a different twist here or there!

2) Don’t forget that if someone says they don’t like what you wrote, then they’re just jealous of how much talent that person has!

3) And finally…whoever said this was easy?

Conclusion:

After considering the story seriously (and not) in many different perspectives such as religious, philosophical, or psychological; one may quickly conclude that the story is a metaphor for life itself.

In other words, one may say that it’s about “how to live,” instead of “how to be happy.”

So in light of this discovery, I would like to put forth a proposition…We should all stop looking for happiness in things that have nothing to do with ourselves and start being happy at being alive.