We tend to grossly overstate the effect that external factors have on our mental state. We think the new job, the new house, or the new relationship will relieve us of our anxieties and unlock a higher plane of living. And for fleeting moments in the wake of acquiring the new job, the new house, or the new relationship, that may seem to be the case. But eventually, after the adjective “new” is removed, our old anxieties return. Happiness is an internal phenomenon; it exists or does not exist inside our own heads. As a result, we are the only people alive capable of finding it for ourselves; the outside world is of no help.
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