Happiness Worthiness

Are you worthy of being happy?  It might be a strange thing to ask, but is important to consider.

So many people take enormous efforts to make them happy, but they may be missing a critical link:  the self-worth that allows that to happen.

It’s really nobody’s fault, since we live in a country that practically demands that you be happy; and if you can’t do it on your own, just ask your local doctor for a little pill to speed it up.

That may be the case, but when you think of your own happiness, you might want to consider the following:

1. Is happiness an entitlement, or is it like so many other things, just a by-product of doing the right thing? If you compare the usual madness associated with making money (often going nowhere) to the obsession with being happy, it begins to make sense: the more you chase something in a needy fashion, the further away that goal seems to get.
2. Is happiness dependent on a set of external factors? You could debate this for eternity, but the more advanced spiritual folks suggest that it is based on an internal feeling, rather than outside forces. My opinion falls in between: you must have a healthy sense of your own worth to be happy, but that happiness can be impacted by external things.
3. Is happiness just one more thing that is self-created by you, more specifically your own thoughts? Now it gets interesting: if you subscribe to the holographic theory of existence (which suggests that your reality is purely a function of your own thoughts), then yes, yes and yes! You absolutely create your own happiness (or your own sadness for that matter).
4. Is happiness just existing in human form? A very existential question for sure, and one that a spiritual master like Osho would answer in the affirmative.

Are you worthy enough to create your own version of happiness?