You're going to be. Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm sure when you visited your local grocery store as you're checking out you'll

see all the tabloids there describing the different lives of people around the

world and how they haven't turned out very well.

These newspapers and magazines usually pick on people who are already famous, but have done

some misdeed or something has gone wrong in their life and they're trying to exploit it

by telling people about it around the world. I don't remember ever purchasing one of

those magazines because I think everyone matters, even famous people, and their lives too.

I love for them to be happy.

We all deserve to be happy.

But I do think these newspapers and magazines have something to teach us.

What almost everyone, and I do mean almost everyone does, in the pursuit of happiness, is

they say, when I reach this goal, this attainment, then I'll be happy.

And often this goal is based upon some relationship that we want, some new job that we want, a certain amount of money or great notoriety that we want,

then we'll be happy. And yet these magazines and newsstands who talk about these people's lives who have the things

that we're pursuing aren't happy. They're clearly not happy. Why? What's going

on here? It's actually very simple but it takes a little bit of reasoning.

It's all about what people are pursuing, and when they get it, for example, if someone tells you

about one-year friends who's done really well in their business and now is a very wealthy human being, you're going to ask, but are they happy?

Or someone else you may meet may be a top surgeon in the medical community, but you're

going to ask, are they happy?

Another friend has five kids, the kids that they've wanted their whole life, again you're going to ask, but are they

happy? Or someone fell in love and married their sweetheart, their high school sweetheart,

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