True Happiness “I want to be happy.” ― I had always hoped so for a long time. However, one day, I realised that “I’m already happy.” I had a habit of thinking negatively, and accepted it as my personality. I had no confidence in myself. Three years ago, I went to the UK and met a lot of people from all over the world. The people around me were positive thinkers, and they often said to me like, “You should have more confidence in yourself,” “Believe yourself,” “Do whatever you want because you only live once,” and so on. They really inspired me and changed my sense of value in a positive way. However, it was still difficult for me to change my way of thinking. I’ve been thinking about true happiness since then, and I realised that I can never be happy unless I try to find happiness in myself. In fact, I didn’t like myself, therefore, I had cared too much about other people’s feelings, judgment and evaluation. I had been trying to find happiness in other people. If you depend on finding happiness in others, your feelings would be easily swayed by their words and actions. If they don’t react the way you want them to, you would feel sad, lonely, jealous, annoyed etc. You can never change other people. You can change the world when you change yourself first. ― Just love yourself, and follow your intuition. If you think it is beautiful, it is surely beautiful no matter what other people think. If you feel you’re happy, you’re definitely happy no matter what other people feel. We can be happy and also unhappy depending on what we give meaning to the phenomenon.