THE THIRD SECRETE - HAPPY
We all know that "making someone happy" is impossible. An unhappy person is unhappy and no relationship on earth is going to change that, right? We are on the same page? Most people think a relationship is going to make them happy, but that's a week, month or a year at the tops. Unhappy people are unhappy, in and out of a relationship. Oh, and by the way, Happy people don't get Unhappy because of the relationship. The fact is some people just don't know how unhappy they are until they get into a relationship that cuts off their escape routes.
So, here's the real rub for long term relationship success in Happiness.
YOU HAVE TO BE HAPPY.. Yeah baby, it's you. Not your partner, not your relationship, that's nothing to do with it. YOU have to be happy and the most important thing you have to be happy about, is nothing.
Now, you might be confused, so, here's a bit more information on this. Being happy because you get, got, have, or had something is physical and understandable so lets label that PLEASURE. Pleasure of the physical nature can come and go, as we all know. So, it's really dumb to label HAPPY with the derivation of pleasure. If pleasure comes and goes, then so will our happiness. We're like a donkey chasing a carrot on a stick or a cat chasing its tail. This is a definite burnout model for relationships.
HAPPY people ARE HAPPY. No cause.
So, HAPPY in relationship means HAPPY in LIFE means HAPPY in SELF. A miserable person might be attracted to a Happy relationship but eventually that misery, that internal emotional dialogue infects the relationship and that's the end of romance.
People become as you think about them. If you're appreciating your partner, appreciating them (BETTER) and seeing that, they are helping you live your DESTINY FASTER you have the first part of successful relationship. But the third element, HAPPY, has nothing to do with your partner or your RELATIONSHIP.
Happy is up to you and it is, without question, the most challenging.
We think that Making Someone Happy, will make them want to be with us. That's is not exactly true. If we are already happy before we meet someone, then everything we do will make them happy, it's infectious. But if we are not happy and we try to make others happy, the real hope is that by making them happy, they'll return the favour. This fails.
The most Narcissistic thing we can do is to CHANGE OTHERS TO MAKE THEM HAPPY. The most altruistic thing we can do is to CHANGE OURSELVES TO BE HAPPY, because this happiness is infectious and then, it doesn't matter so much how we serve the world - our happiness guarantees goodness comes from it.
This is ironic because rather than changing your partner, trying to make them happy, you swing it around and choose to make you happy without things. In other words happy without a BECAUSE.
If you find yourself saying, I am happy today, because.....a, b, c, d, then you've just created the opportunity to sink in unhappiness without.....a, b, c, d.
Your happiness - no matter what happens, leads to the best relationship and all the great spiritual literature the emotion you show toward someone is actually what you get back, so, if you're happy, really happy - regardless - then that is the most powerful way to cause their happiness.
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