As a psychiatrist, I’ve seen how chasing happiness leads to misery | Psyche Ideas

But in truth, happiness has much more to do with how we feel than anything else. When we try to follow everyone else, do what we think we “should,” or create an identity for ourselves that doesn’t work, we suffer.

The great irony is that those who dedicate their lives to hunting the chimera are the least likely to find it. As the psychiatrist Viktor Frankl warned, you can’t pursue happiness head-on. It will find you, but only as an unintentional byproduct of some worthier goal. Instead of chasing a mirage, eyes forever fixed on the destination, all we can do