- Your partner
- Your kids
- Your friends
- Your job/employer
- Your hobbies
The operative discussion hither is "depend."
We depend on food, water, together with oxygen for survival.
When it comes the examples listed above, they tin sure enough raise our lives, but life satisfaction shouldn't depend on whatsoever ane of them.
As nosotros all know, things together with people tin modify at the drib of a hat:
- Your partner could cheat on or autumn out of dearest amongst you
- Your kids may distance themselves from you lot (or fifty-fifty grow to dislike you) every bit they teach older
- Shifting priorities may H2O downward your relationships
- You tin live on seat off at whatsoever given moment, or you lot may come upward to abhor your project over time
- You tin throw your back, rendering you lot unable to play football game or other games you lot may enjoy
- The car, watch, or mug you lot dearest together with thence much could suspension unexpectedly
I'm non maxim these things volition most definitely happen, but there's e'er the possibility that a mortal or province of affairs may modify when to the lowest degree expected -- together with non e'er favorably.
While nosotros should strive to teach the most out of our relationships together with hobbies, nosotros should never depend on them together with thence heavily that if something were to teach awry, nosotros would experience overcome yesteryear deep sadness. (This, of course, doesn't utilise to circumstances similar expiry together with illness, for which grieving is completely justified.)
We should crusade our best to cultivate a slew of interests together with relationships together with thence that if nosotros hitting roadblocks amongst ane of them, nosotros tin redirect our energies to a dissimilar one.
Indeed, life is all nearly remaining flexible -- together with adapting to changing circumstances.
We should e'er appreciate the things together with people nosotros love, but nosotros should never assume that they volition rest the same forever. More importantly, nosotros should never experience that nosotros cannot live on happy without them.
As I've stressed inwards diverse posts, happiness stems from within. Attaching your happiness to things together with people is a recipe for disappointment.
