My Skipping Rope Makes Me Happy
(A clever guide to permanent happiness)
Everybody wants happiness
Happiness is a tricky phenomenon, the psychotherapist's dilemma. I have seen people being happy because they had a sip of wine. I have seen people being happy because they said Msathanyoko to someone they don't like. I have seen people being happy because they got laid. Happiness, like money, comes in many uniforms and works differently for different people. But at the core of happiness is the basic principle, my theory of happiness. The truth is: Everybody wants to be happy, but we don't know how, at least most of the time. Some “gurus” have suggested that you don't need anything for you to be happy; that you can just decide to be happy by convincing your mind to be happy. Well, from personal experience let me tell you that convincing your mind to just become happy is as hard as trying to convince your stomach that it if full. Impossible. Anthony Robbins and Rhonda Byrne, amongst other power speakers and writers, have made these impossible claims that one can just be happy without any material or person to make them happy. I won't attack the two, but let me say, well why do they want to convince us about all this? Will they become unhappy if they don't sell their books? I bet you! They'll become so miserable, I know because I am a writer and can't imagine just quitting on writing and deciding to become happy without having to have a book published and sold. It beats me how the same Anthony Robbins felt so unhappy with his former wife Becky that they ended up divorced. I was shocked to learn that his marriage had failed to make them both happy, and as a result they both jumped ship.
Skipping rope happiness trigger
Constant self-evaluation and observation of other human beings help me come up with what I call the Skipping Rope Happiness Trigger. You would be amazed to realise that when you use a skipping rope, you are actually just jumping up and down. You can jump up and down up to 500 or 1000 times using a skipping rope. But can you do the same using nothing but your feet? You propably won't, or can't. You can't afford to jump around up to 5000 times without using the skipping rope. Meanwhile, it is not the rope that makes you jump, it is your feet. Your legs are doing the jumping, the skipping rope is just keeping urging you on. So it is possible to skip without a rope, but we can't see ourselves doing it. Why? Maybe because it seems ridiculous.
The same theory applies with happiness. It is like a skipping rope. From what the gurus say, happiness is within you – you don't need a Mercedes Benz for you to become happy because everytime you become happy it comes from within. This means happiness has always been there. If someone can come to you and give you a R1 million cheque, you will be very happy. But to be just happy without the Benz or the million is difficult, and in today's reality, impossible. You need something to urge you on, something to trigger the happiness. Just like a loaded gun, it won't release bullets until you pull the trigger, even if you just squeeze it. So, to me, our mind is playing a trick on us and we just have to play with it. For you to be happy, you need something or someone to make you happy. Without something, nothing will squeeze the happiness out of you. It cannot be denied, you have all the happiness you need right in the inside of you. But you can't deny that you need something or someone to pull that trigger and release your happiness. You need that glass of liquor, that BMW, that sexy wife/hubby, that house/furniture, that business deal; damn, you need that money. Then your happiness will be released.
Types of happiness
Momentary happiness
Semi-permanent happiness
Permanent happiness
Futuristic happiness
Sources of happiness
Approval – a mentally based happiness
Satiation – a biologically based happiness
Approval: Everyone feels happy when they sense (hear or see or feel) that others approve of who they are or what they do. When you sense that somebody likes or loves you, it automatically releases your happiness. You become happy. Disapproval is a mentally based source of unhappiness.
Satiation: Everyone feels happy when their physical desires or yearnings are met or satiated. When you eat after feeling hunger pangs you become happy. When you become sexually satiated (if somebody has touched you at the right spot and increased the enjoyment) your happiness trigger is pulled and you become happy. Insatiation is a biologically based source of unhappiness.
Therefore you are only happy when you feel approved of or when you feel satiated. You feel unhappy when you don't sense approval from those you wish to approve of you or when you are insatiated.
Types of approval and satiation
Approval
Real approval – when real beings (people or animals) approve of you
Fictional approval – when imaginary beings (gods, people or animals) approve of you
Satiation
Real satiation – real objects (physical clothes, physical food, physical gadgets, physical sexual organs) satisfy your body
Fictional satiation – imaginery objects (imagined clothes, imagined food, imagined gadgets, imagined sexual organs) satisfy your body
My Theory:
Approval and satiation are the only explainable sources of happiness. That's my psychological evaluation and philosophical discource.
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