I challenge you to ask the people around you if they are happy with their lives. Doesn’t matter what their background is. See if you can get just 10 people that say love their lives.
It’s tough right? Truly happy people are hard to come by, because it’s so much easier for us to be pessimistic than optimistic. And the difference between the two is in how they process their experiences with the world.
Not how YOU can change their experiences, but how THEY process the experiences.
This jumps into the topic that I wanted to address, which is Stop Trying to Make Everyone Happy.
Because we can’t do it. We can’t control how someone feels about another person or a loss of a family. We can try to help someone see something from a different angle, but if they choose not accept it, there is nothing we can do.
We are not responsible for the happiness of other people. Yes, there is to some extent where what we do will affect the experiences of other people [and we should be considerate of how others might feel], but we are ultimately not responsible for how they feel.
So don’t try to be a hero and carry their unhappiness thinking that it will make a difference.