Being needed is also a kind of happiness

Elza 2021-12-26 08:01:17

I watched this movie on CHC today, and I still feel it. It has something in common with the recently hit "If the Time Can Turn Back".

A psychiatrist wants to find what he thinks of happiness, to China, Africa, the United States... After experiencing a series of experiences during his journey, he knows what real happiness is for himself.

15 insights about happiness:

1.Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

People who always like to compare don't feel happy.

2.A lot of people think happiness means being richer or more important.

Many people think that being rich and famous is happiness.

3.Many people only see happiness in the future.

Many people think that happiness is only in the future.

4.Happiness could be the freedom to love more than one woman at the same time.

Happiness may mean falling in love with two women at the same time. (Later he crossed it out)

5.Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

Happiness sometimes comes from deception.

6.Avoiding unhappiness...is not the way to happiness.

Escape from misfortune does not mean happiness.

7.Does this person bring you predominantly A) up or B) down?

This person usually brings you happiness? Still painful?

8.Happiness is answering your call.

Happiness is loyalty to one's vocation.

9.Happiness is being loved for who you are.

Happiness is because someone falls in love with the real you.

10. Sweet potato stew!

Eat a big pot of stewed potatoes!

11. Fear is an impediment to happiness.

Fear keeps happiness out of the door.

12. Happiness is feeling completely alive.

To be happy is to be alive.

13. Happiness is knowing how to celebrate.

Happiness is knowing how to revel.

14.Listening is loving.

Listening is love.

15.Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

Nostalgia does not mean going back to the past.

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Extended Reading

Hector and the Search for Happiness quotes

  • Hector: You've been a fugitive. You've been in prison for your beliefs, you've lost family and loved ones. I mean, you've just been through so much. How is it you're so happy?

    Old Monk: Because I've been through so much.

    Hector: I mean, searching for happiness is one thing, but making it the goal, it just doesn't work, does it?

    Old Monk: Higher than that, Hector. More important than what we are searching for is what we are avoiding.

    Hector: Like unhappiness. So, don't make unhappiness *not* the goal?

    Old Monk: Higher than that.

    Hector: Avoiding unhappiness is *not* the road to happiness.

    Old Monk: You hold all the cards, Hector.

    [both laugh]

  • Edward: You're a very very strange person, Hector. The kind of person I normally avoid like the plague. I'm glad I didn't.