Be A Loser — If You Want To Be Happy

If you want to be happy, be a loser.

Let your parents think you’re stupid for not following their path.

Start the business even when your friends don’t believe in you.

Study the interests that nobody else seems to care about.

Because the Western notion of success is wrong. The life you want doesn’t lie on the other end of a degree, a high-paying job, a calendar full of social obligations and events, vapid relationships to hide your loneliness, buying more things, or rotting your brain with entertainment.

The eastern notion of success is also wrong. Rejecting the manifest world to discover the intricacies of your inner world is a valid pursuit. More valid than ever, but it often leads to people rejecting an entire dimension of reality, closing them off to a deeper happiness that can’t be found through an isolated spirituality.

Life doesn’t reduce down to only a Western doing, nor an Eastern being, but an integration of them both as becoming.

Now, “happiness” is a confusing term.

Everyone has their own interpretations and definitions for it, and frankly, there will never be a time when you can sustain a peak state of happiness. That’s not how the mind works. Happiness can only exist when compared to a sad…