Being Happy

I read an article about learning to be happy in the latest Her World. I simply love one of the paragraph composed by the author.

[ Appreciation for what you have, of not comparing yourself to others, is an important factor in happiness. Once people start to compare themselves to others, feelings of resentment, jealousy, anger and unfairness come in. It's called relative deprivation. We may look at someone and then think we have to be thinner, richer, prettier. When you compare yourself to others you will never find happiness. ]

The above sentence is really crucial to whether one will be happy with their lives. Many times we tend to do too much comparison. Well, it is healthy to strive to become better, but comparison over trivial stuff is really extraneous. Not only it makes you become less confident about yourself it will also tarnish the relationships with others.

What if you are the object of such disdain? Ask me, I am always being treated as such, like a target board, 'kena' lots of darts before...

Between friends, I usually laugh over it after I have bitched about it to some mutual party (MP). Guess bitching to a MP does help releasing some negative energy inside me, trying to see the comparison as a joke so that I can get the endorphins out from my body. I can't deny the fact that it irks me every time and bemoan why I am always the object of scrutiny. Helter-skelter, its pointless to ask WHY, I have to learn to battle it off.

OK enough of the discussion about happiness, I have found another way of discharging all my excess energy by working out at the gym everyday. It's really cool to work out alone, I took my own pace at the cardio workouts and doing some light weights. It was quite fruitful, after weighing myself at the gym, I loss about 1.5kg... hahaha. I wasn't able to loose a lot of weight because I cannot resist all the good food around me, moreover I had a great chef at home... it will be a pity not to finish what she had prepared everyday for the whole family am I right? hehehe, I am a sucker for good food.

Yesterday I drove my car and parked at the gym for 3 hours, bloody wrong move, it cost me $16.50 for parking! Wah you know its just not justifiable to pay so much for parking! Therefore I took the mrt today, and it only cost me $1.30. That is what I call efficient cost saving and I was quite proud of myself. Proud for taking the initial step of relinquish my car and hop on the public transport.

My life's been good to me so far, I will stay motivated and happy.