It really has been a while since I’ve posted!
I just thought I’d blog to talk about happiness- a favourite topic of mine!
Recently I’ve become a lot more happy, through a variety of factors that aren’t really important for the purpose of this blog, but that’s not to say they’re not important normally, they’re the best!
But it got me thinking about when I started secondary school; we were asked by our headteacher to raise our hand if we wanted to be successful.. .Naturally everyone put their hand up and thought it was great, apart from one joker, of course. Since that thought’s come back to me I’ve been thinking about the link between success and happiness, and I didn’t really feel like I was told about this during my time at school- telling me that I needed all these nice hefty qualifications in excess to be successful to do A levels and to go to Uni and be successful, but why would I want that if it’s not gonna make me happy?
They made it seem that hard work and unhappiness due to stress at our age is worth the success it could lead to in later life, but then success isn’t guaranteed happiness- look at freakin’ celebrities (on a whole and stereotype, what an insecure bunch of fuck ups). Happiness should be important throughout life, not just when you’re an adult reaping the benefits of success.. or the opposite.
My point here isn’t that you shouldn’t stress out as a teenager and not put any effort into anything, I’ve made that mistake for you, but to remember that your happiness is so much more important than your success, and happiness is factorized into loads of elements- success of which is ONE, but not all. Ergo, you can’t be completely happy by utilizing one factor, and it’s more than likely, the more happy you are the higher you’ll perform in whatever you wanna be successful in.
My happiness is incredibly important to me, and I guess I put that, hand in hand with love, at the forefront of my life.
Hope this has perhaps made you think about your happiness and what it means to you. I genuinely hope your day is a good one :)
Joerobot
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You may have a point that teenagers shouldn’t be stressed out, that happiness should be emphasized as much as success. Hope everyone do not see it as a right but as a privilege with accompanied responsibilities.
Well said :)
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