Are all marked by moving goalposts.

While it’s extremely difficult to find happiness when you’re suffering, especially with physical ailments or environmental factors, happiness markers seem to always be something in the distance.

Always moving, always changing and just when you get close, they move again.

I, for one, am skeptical of petty quotes on social media or glorified discovery stories that pervade pop culture that point us in the “right direction.” These are nothing more than personal journeys marked by deep hurts and dissatisfactions a person is trying to get over.

They’re also over-simplified and leave us in a ditch that we can never recover from: comparison.

It’s pretty clear the world will never be perfect and life will never be exactly where we want it, especially considering our idea of a perfect world and perfect life are constantly changing.

However, that shouldn’t stop us from taking steps towards making it better in our own way. And for that to happen, we need to set our own goalposts and move them on our own accord.

Otherwise, our understandings of happiness will always be callous, unattainable and fleeting.