Chase Happiness or Choose happiness?

Which one do you think is the easiest?
Chase happiness or Choose happiness?

There’s a third way - the simplest, yet not necessarily the easiest.

Let’s take a quick look at the first two:

1. Chase Happiness - The hardest and most exhausting.
It’s like chasing a rainbow, always shifting.
When we pursue happiness through achievements, possessions, or others' approval, it keeps slipping away. It's a never-ending race.

2. Choose Happiness - Empowering, but tricky.
This implies a mind set shift, choosing to be happy regardless of circumstances. While it’s more grounded than chasing, this can easily become surface-level positivity without addressing deeper emotions or stress. Nice on the outside, hollow within.

And now the third way;

3. Be in Stillness -  The most natural,  yet least practiced.
Stillness doesn’t demand chasing or choosing.
It invites you to pause... to simply be.
From that space, happiness often arises, not as a goal, but as a gentle by product.

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  Chasing happiness is exhausting.

  Choosing happiness requires effort.

  Being in stillness is the most natural and often the most powerful.

 

P.S. These thoughts emerged when I received the image below through a WhatsApp forward. (Yes, I added the last line to it!)

 

Now, here's the modified!

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