Security

"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"
Paul Aubuchon

Are you entrusting your happiness to other people? Do you think that it is within the power of someone else to make you happy? Do you think that someone else should make you happy? These are questions we often don't think about because we have been taught from a very young age that other people have the power to make us happy, or to take away our happiness. We have learned to be dependant on other people for our very happiness.

But other people cannot be responsible for our happiness any more than we can be responsible for theirs. Ultimately each of us must take back control over our own happiness. If we rely on other people to bring us joy, they can very quickly bring us pain. If we rely on ourselves for our joy, we never need to know pain; for preventing it is now under our own control.

When we control our own happiness, that is the ultimate security. Whatever other people do, we can still find joy in living. Other people won't have the power to hurt us; which means that we will be free of the desire to hurt them. We won't get discouraged about the future because we will never feel alone. And happiness is the key to success, so when we take back control over our own happiness, we are taking back control over our successs too. Success brings the security we desire.

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