Being Happy: Not A Cliché
Happiness is a state of mind. Specifically, it is a state of “well-being and contentment.”
This is the reason some people say, “Don’t pursue happiness, seek joy. Happiness is fickle and fading, joy remains forever.”
But this short-term definition of happiness is not how everyone understands the word. Some define it to mean long-term satisfaction.
The long-term feeling of life satisfaction is most experienced when we embrace the emotion of joy in the here and now.
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