How to Reinvent Ourselves and Create Our Well-Being

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How to Reinvent Ourselves and Create Our Well-Being
“Don’t worry about a thing, cause every little thing is gonna be alright.” Sounds familiar, is it not? This line is from one of Bob Marley’s very famous feel good songs; do not worry and just be happy because every little thing is going to be alright. I am sure that anyone who hears this song will surely feel good about life and will surely feel, even if not totally, happy. The song actually builds. It gives a positive feeling of hope, optimism, and faith. Somehow, all your problems just go away and you feel like you own the world.
But what does really happiness means? How does someone achieve the peak of it? How do you know when you are happy? Is it when you feel like you have everything in the world or is it when you feel like even if you do not have everything, you still have the world?
Recently, a lot of things have been associated with true happiness. However, it would seem like this “true” happiness is associated with material things such as the latest gadget, the fastest and most beautiful car, a big white house, or any other quantifying things. It seems like today, the more of these that you have, the better you are; and, the better you are, the happier you become.
In an article by Monbiot (Monbiot, George), he described ‘materialism’ as a “system that eats us from the inside out.” Indeed, materialism does. If you have noticed, children today are very materialistic and technology-inclined. Sometimes you eat a restaurant and then you see an eight-year old kid playing a game using the latest iPhone, or sometimes you ride the bus and you see a child playing the latest game in the latest generation of the iPad series. There are even times when you ride the bus, and then outside the window, you see a teenager or a very young adult driving the latest model of a motor company. It is but a little amusing, right? Especially when you start to realize that when you were a kid, you did not need things like that to be happy. All you needed when you were a child was a play in the park with the other kids, or a field trip to the zoo with your classmates, or a very simple mobile phone when you got older. And so, this makes you wonder: Is that really what happiness means nowadays? Does being popular and rich make you the happiest kid?
Of course, the answer would be no. Psychology, and I guess even other subjects and branches of science, would agree that genuine happiness comes from within. While it is true that having material things is true happiness, it is not genuine. You are just happy, but the truth is, you are not genuinely happy.
So how do we become naturally and genuinely happy? Simple: create a healthy well-being free from all the temptations and lures of the outside world. We can actually create our own well-being. We just have to focus and concentrate on the things that needs our attention the most and disregard the things that might corrupt our sense of genuine happiness. What do you need to focus on to do this? This essay will give you the things that you should really focus on to obtain your desired true sense of genuine and realistic well-being, which in turn, will re...