What if I told you everything you thought you knew about happiness is wrong? The truth is happiness is a myth and an illusion that is overrated. It is like chasing after a butterfly. The more you pursue it, the more it eludes you, and the moment you catch it is the moment it begins to die. So, from whence came the word happy? According to The Oxford English Dictionary, the first record of the word was around 1350, from Middle English, "a form of the English language spoken after the Norman conquest (1066) until the late 15th century," which is a derivative of the Old Norse "happ," meaning "luck" or "chance." It combined "the word hap, meaning "a person's luck or lot," and the suffix –y, meaning "characterized by," to form diminutive nouns and adjectives denoting a state, condition, or quality. Then, in essence, when someone says, "I want to be happy," they are really saying that they want someone e
𝑮𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝑨𝒏𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝑺𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝑬𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒕𝒉.