Most of us live under the assumption that how we feel has to do with what is happening in our lives. 

What if I told you that it is not true? 

What if how you feel has nothing to do with what’s going on around you?

Would you argue with logic, or would you be open to seeing how that might be possible?

If you believe that how you feel has to do with the situation you are in, then essentially you have no way out until some situation around you changes. You will keep trying to change your situation hoping that how you feel will change. Look at that process – you change something outside of you, hoping that will change something inside of you. 

There’s an interview of the Indian actor Hritik Roshan, where he confesses that he was conditioned to think that when he gets success, he will be happy. And when he became really successful, he was looking for where this happiness was and it just wasn’t there. You don’t need to go through that same journey – of reaching where you want to reach and realizing that it doesn’t make you feel the way you imagined it would.

But what if the other way is possible – where you can be happy first and then do whatever you want to do from that happiness, instead of for that happiness? 

What if you could feel how you want to feel, and live a life which expresses that feeling, instead of a life which is desperate for it?

Would you be curious enough to explore it?

Would you rather be hopeful, or would you give in to cynicism? 

Which feeling do you prefer?

Many of us wonder that if we already feel happy and content, then we wouldn’t have the motivation to do anything, and we would retire from life as we know it. 

All my experience points to the contrary: when we are already in a desired feeling state, we experience the desire of expansion and expression. We do things out of that feeling rather than doing things to get that feeling. 

How different would your life be if you did things that expressed the joy and aliveness you already have?