WHAT MAKES PEOPLE UNHAPPY

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They say that Happiness is a choice and it's true. What this simply mean is that choosing to be happy or not is like making daily basic choices, it's just like choosing to eat or to starve or choosing to bath or not. We know that despite what happens in life, we eat because if we don't we will starve to death, that is how happiness is, every second we spend being unhappy, something dies in us. So if we are unhappy then we chose to be so.

Here are some reasons why people are unhappy:

FOMO

In this era of social media, Fear of missing out is the most common cause of unhappiness. Often times, people see other people's achievements and wealth online and they become so unhappy that they don't have those things and that we are missing out. We all have our own timelines of achieving our success, we will all achieve success in our individual time. We shouldn't use other people's achievement to measure our happiness.

Comparison.

Oh she has such a perfect body! I'm ugly. He makes better money than me It's okay to admire people that are ahead of us in life but when we start comparing and looking down on ourselves, we loose sight of what we have and who we are. People don't let you see their failures, so stop comparing yourself with them. You never can tell what is going on with them behind closed doors. Always be contented with what you have even when you aspire to be better.

Change

In life, change is constant. Good things happen, same as bad things. We can't change the things that happen to us but we can change our attitude towards them. Most times, people become so engrossed in the bad things that happened to them in life and that can cause unhappiness. The sooner we accept change the better for us. When bad things happen, the best thing to do is Move on.

Trying to be someone else

Being someone else can be emotionally and psychologically draining. You can't maximise your potentials when you are someone else and if you don't maximise your potentials, your chances of being happy are very slim. Be yourself, there is freedom in it. You can only live your best life when you are yourself.

Negativity

When most people make mistakes, they tend to dwell in it and abuse themselves alot. I'm such a fool, I'm dumb, I'm a failure.etc. You can't be happy if you keep being negative and saying negative things to yourself. Our minds believe and act on whatever we put in it. Start putting positivity in to your minds, see mistakes as lessons and move on.

Ungratefulness

Life is never that bad, there are always things to be grateful for. An ungrateful person never see the good things they have and they are never contented and they can never be happy. Gratefulness is one of the best ways to be happy.

Whenever unhappiness creeps in, identify the cause and make a conscious decision to be happy. Happiness is a choice.

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