A Reason To Feel Good

We are all looking for a reason to feel good.

Something so simple, yet somehow made into something so complicated.

We often have this tendency to think that we need a reason to feel good about being alive.

That we need to do things, own things, and achieve things.

And perhaps that is the problem.

Of course it is important that we participate in external activities because it stimulates our experience of life, engages us in the give and take, and pragmatically speaking, it is required to establish financial stability and general safety.

But the things that we do and acquire should not be the sole factors by which we derive feeling good about life.

The material world is in flux.

Cycles rotate in ways that are often arbitrary and out of anyone's control.

What was cool and new last year is likely not this year.

And things that we once thought would make us feel good forever, like a nice house, a cool car, a career promotion, etc. ultimately at some point fade into the background of our lives and no longer make us feel the same level of joy and appreciation compared to when we first acquired them.

And so, these kinds of reasons to feel good just become reasons to look for more reasons to feel good, pushing us further and further away from ever being able to just simply feel good.

When we depend our ability to feel good on things outside of our self, we over complicate something that is inherently simple.

The reason to feel good needs no reason beyond itself.

If your goal is to feel good, then you already have the only reason you need.

You have the spirit of life and positivity.

You believe that life is so incredible that there should be no moment where you do not feel intoxicated by its bliss.

So if you are not already, feel good right now.