11. “Happiness should be handed to me”
Pursuing happiness is completely different from being happy. Being happy is like living in the moment. You see something good, you bask in it and you feel happy. Pursuing happiness is when you strive for something that makes you happy. It is like getting your own happiness. A key problem in the everyday life of people is that they want to be happy but won’t pursue it. In other words, they want happiness to be delivered to them on a silver platter. That is wrong, you can’t be happy all the time. There will be ups and downs in life and there will be moments when happiness won’t be present at all, but that does not mean you won’t work for it. Just because happiness isn’t there anymore does not mean you cannot make it come to you.