Many people believe happiness will come only after they complete a series of arduous preparations and perquisites:
“Once I finish university, get promoted at the law firm, pay off my student loans, go through my first divorce, find a new fairy-tale partner, and buy a vacation home in Aspen, then I can be happy.”
“Life is a journey, not a destination.” This may sound cliché, but there is a truth in it. The perfect circumstances you’re waiting for might never happen. You need to find joy in small, everyday moments and with flawed, ordinary people.
Boasting About Tomorrow
James 4:13-15 (ESV)
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
That’s the biggest misconception about finding happiness, that it lies in a different time and at a different place. Happiness isn’t something you find in retrospect. Happiness is where you cause it to be.
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