Darryl Burks

Why Am I Not Happy?

We all want things in life. Desire is built into our genetic code. But even in this age when we have achieved more physical comfort and more mechanization resulting in ease of work than at any other time in history, we are still not happy. This seems odd, doesn’t it? After all, we are all told from a young age that once we get the right mate, the right house filled with the right stuff, drive the right car and have the right job, then we will be HAPPY. So what happened? We did all the work, got the stuff, but still no joy. I want to offer that perhaps we have been sold a bill of goods and led down the primrose path. You see, when we do all the “right” things, we may not be happy, but all the people selling us crap and getting us to behave/vote a certain way certainly are, or at least think they are. The missing ingredient here is so simple yet often so very difficult to achieve. True happiness requires us to think in a different way.