Many of us are raised in a society that expects us to go to school, get a job, have a family, and work until we can retire. Basically we were given a checklist for how to “do” life correctly and are forced to follow it. But if we try to follow that exact path, we wind up only seeking out the next item on the list. Thus we’re just constantly looking for the next step that will bring us closer to what we should have. It then becomes quite hard to enjoy where we’re actually at because we’re always pursuing what’s next.
Why is it then that we can’t seem to find happiness -or at least what we think it should be? We long for the day when everything has fallen into place. When we can finally relax and say, “I did it, I made it!”. But we need to realize that day will never come. We’ll always be growing and searching for what comes next -that’s what life is! So why can’t we enjoy where we are now?