My favorite tea brand is Yogi Tea. They have a great variety of herbal teas and also came up with the brilliant idea to write small inspirational messages on each tea bag.

My message for today is “Happiness is an accomplishment”. This reminded me of a talk by the Indian new age guru Osho that I listened to a few months ago that made a big impression on me. He was reflecting upon the attention that “unhappy” people receive and how it is a lot more that what happy people get.

Think about it. If your friends ask you how you are doing and you simply answer “Great”- you are not going to be asked many further questions. But if your answer is “I`m feeling miserable”- there will surely be much more interest towards you and your situation, and the conversation will evolve around you much more than in the previous case.

According to Osho, because of our attention-seeking egos, we would be much more inclined towards unhappiness for two main reasons:

• Being unhappy would get us more attention and sympathy.
• It takes an active effort to bring yourself out of the misery and maintain a positive state of mind, which we tend to avoid.

Of course, that does not apply to everyone and generalizing is not the point. The point is for us to think it over and to understand that the only person that can make you happy is yourself. And from that perspective happiness is really an accomplishment and something in which we should take pride when we get there 🙂