Learn How To Find True Happiness In Life

The phrase “you do you” permeates our current culture encouraging us to pursue our independence, find success, and live empowered. But is it possible that this idea of “you do you” is actually all about selfishness driving our egos? Because if that’s true, it will lead us away from true happiness, not towards it. “You do you” is born out of an independent spirit which believes that if a person can simply find their thing and do it, then they will find happiness. Here is the problem: When we make independence and the pursuit of happiness our highest goal, we make selfishness the foundation. God did not create us to be independent. He created us to be interdependent – to need and depend and serve one another! Jesus said, “You are to love the Lord Yahweh, your God, with every passion of your heart, with all the energy of your being, with every thought that is within you, and with all your strength. This is the great and supreme commandment. And the second is this: ‘You must love your neighbor in the same way you love yourself.’ You will never find a greater commandment than these.” When we embrace this “great commandment” of loving God and loving others, we find our lives intertwined with those whom we love. Our sense of worth comes from our ability to love and give to others. The foundation of our ego then becomes loving God and others rather than a pursuit of happiness for ourselves. Success becomes service to others not being served. When we do things God’s way, we find we have everything in abundance, more than we can expect. This is the way to really “do you” – and ultimately, the answer to finding true happiness.