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Your Life Will Keep Sucking If You Keep Dreaming of Perfect Scenarios; Here is a Better Alternative

Renuka Gavrani
6 min readMay 26, 2023

If I ask you who is responsible for your happiness, what would you say?

Yes, you are smart enough to say ‘I Am.’

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But then I have two questions,

  1. If you are responsible for your happiness then why are you not happy? Does that mean you are not doing anything to make yourself feel happy?
  2. And why do you wait for God, people, and other external surroundings to give you something to feel happy? I know it’s pretty simple to blame God because, unlike humans, he cannot come down to defend himself.

You might think that I am starting to sound like a motivational speaker but here is a simple truth about our current situation.

You know that no one else but you are responsible for your happiness. You know that people cannot plant the seed of happiness in your life as they have a lot to deal with in their own lives so that leaves you with the responsibility to make your life happy and yourself joyful.

However, when you don’t do anything to make yourself feel better, you create proofs for your brain that YOU ARE DEPENDENT. Every time you curse any external person or circumstances for your unhappiness, you tell your brain that you are out of…

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Renuka Gavrani
Renuka Gavrani

Written by Renuka Gavrani

I talk about slow & Intentional living - taking you closer to a happy life. I am a published author of the book 'The Art of Being Alone': https://a.co/d/531JIFq

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