You don’t know what goes on behind closed doors.”
Some of us would rather believe that the picture or images of someone else’s happiness is a lie, rather than celebrate and be genuinely happy for them. We’d rather chalk it up to “You don’t know what goes on behind closed doors.” While this is true, you don’t know. But the fact that you’d rather co-sign your own ignorance and imagination of what could be behind their closed doors, instead of celebrate the picture of their happiness they actually allow you to see, exposes more of what’s behind the closed doors of your heart. Keep in mind, that what’s behind their closed doors isn’t even your business anyway. But you’d have a problem with that too if they showed you. “They tell too much of their business!” Well when they didn’t tell you, you chose to think the worst. Moral of the story: Learn to be happy for others even when it’s not your turn. It may actually plant a seed in your life to reap a harvest of happiness later. If you choose to think the worst and refuse to be happy for others, it may even plant a seed to reap a harvest of unhappiness later. You reap what you sow. This may explain why you’re so bitter, jealous and discontent.
Instead of you seeking personal peace in your own life thinking about the possibility of the worse in someone else’s life, try learning true contentment. If you being able to be happy about what you have going on (or not going on) in your own life is determined by the thought of someone else’s misery or them having it worse than you, you’re not genuinely happy and the most miserable of them all.
*Tressa Jo
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