5 Reasons Why People Can’t Find Happiness

3. You care more about what people think about you instead of what you want.

You let people define who you are, and that’s some miserable stuff right there. Letting people dictate how you should live your life means you’re letting them determine what happiness means to you. And it doesn’t have to be that way if you learn to take that power back. Meryl Streep said it best: “I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that’s what you’re going to count on. In the end, it’s what feels right to you…Not what anybody else tells you.”

You’re only a product of someone else’s happiness until you begin to define your own happiness for yourself. Let’s face it. If we lived in a world where happiness was uniform and wasn’t such a subjective concept, then it would be a whole lot easier to handle and manage. But, it’s not. It’s personal. And so completely changeable. Some days, it’s predictable. And other times, it can be downright shocking.