WHAT MAKES ME HAPPY?
I think “Happy” it’s easy to describe, but is difficult to put in the context if we are talking about what actually happy is. Every on of us have our own meaning of happy. Someone can say he is happy because he can eat fried chicken every day, or she can happy if she can see her favorite artist win a award. We also can feel happy not because one or two things that happen, it can be a lot of things that can make us happy.
So, what actually things that makes me happy? If I have to put in words what things that can make me happy, I think not enough words to say it, to mention all of the things that will makes me happy. But I’ll try. I’ll try as simple as I can. I will tell about things that made me happy.
There are many things that made me happy. Winning spelling bee competition back in the elementary school, loved by someone who we think special, able to buy new shoes, and so on. If I want to examine all of the things that made and makes me happy, it has to be started since the beginning why I started all of those things or why I want those things. It is never far away from feeling satisfied or fortunate. That means perhaps it is relate with achievements, it can be big things or very small things.
Things that makes me happy are always changing depends on my age and my social peers. Back then at elementary school, as I can remember, I am happy enough if can ride my bike in Sunday morning with all my friends 10km away from my house. At junior high school I am happy enough if I am allowed to ride my father’s motorcycle. At Senior high school I am happy enough if I can play football with my classmates after school hour, and at the university, I am very happy if I can go to hike with my friend in the weekday and skip my class.
But, at work life, or I can say, nowadays, it all change. I am started to feel happy about small — small things. Like have enough sleep in the night, have a small chat after working hours while sipping a cup of coffee, and even only waking up without reminder on my phone. All my list of “things that makes me happy” slowly shifting from “Satisfied” feeling to “Fortunate” feeling.
Daily work life routine sometimes really puts me in a very emotional position. There always a day that everything always seems wrong, doesn’t matter how good things happened, it just wrong. If that moment is there, what I do is how to break that routine, because maybe I just need a little distraction to reorganize my feeling. Then what I do is always catching up my friend to a coffee shop, or play some sports, or maybe just eat unhealthy food. It those doesn’t work, then that means that I need some “me time”. It can be reading a book, play guitar, or go to mall and buy some clothes or shoes. So, I think that’s enough to sum up what things that makes me happy. It is always between those two, either express my extrovert trait or switch on my introvert mode. It can be other than mentioned activity also.
One thing that I understand about happy, that “Happy” is a feeling that we can control in ourselves. It’s all depends with how we react to all of those things that happened to us. If we are grateful, I am sure it will lead to happy then happiness. Yes, Happiness, more sustainable version of “happy” I think. But if we compare us with others, the very small chance or maybe zero chance we can feel happy. That’s it.
