Short story: Unhappiness was not who John really was

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John had gone for an appointment to his psychologist, Alfred Gorfton, because he was feeling rather down, depressed, and just unhappy about the way that his life was currently panning itself out. Alfred looked at John, with his piercing eyes, as he said to John: "You know John, happiness is your natural state, so why are you not always happy?" "And so, this means that we don't need a reason to be happy, because happiness is our natural state." "But, oppositely so, we do need a reason to be unhappy, as unhappiness is not our natural state." "What is your reason to be unhappy, John?" Alfred asked of John. "Think about this statement of truth now then." "Everything out of your control is always under God's control." "Have you heard of the Serenity prayer, which goes something like this:" "God grant me the serenity to accept the things that I cannot change; the courage to change the things that I can; and the wisdom to always know the difference." The spiritual teacher Eckart Tolle, says this about unhappiness:" "The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it." "Now, we might easily accept, and believe what he has said here, as it does sound rather plausible, but are we our thoughts alone?" "Now, thoughts lead to thinking. Thinking creates a colour to your experiences, and so feelings other than happiness are created then, by our seeing these one-dimensional colours, all segregated out all alone. We see the colours of boredom, depression, insecurity, unhappiness, solely because of the way that we think, then." "But, I more say that actually there are no causes for both unhappiness, nor happiness." "Happiness is always there, as it is the meat of life, but when you do not like that meat, you become a vegetarian, and so then you need to find happiness again, all over again, and you think that you are unhappy in the interim, and must look for it, or for something or other to create it for you again, once more again, in your life." "Nothing has been lost though, as we are still happy underneath all else." " Happiness is the natural state of who we all are." " Acceptance of life, exactly as it is, is the only real happiness." "Your quality of life comes from your ability to see love in all things, and then your doing what is pretty much the loving thing of being yourself without regret, or without the unhappiness, of non-acceptance." "Think over these things until our next session John." Albert said. "This session is now finished, and I must prepare myself for my next client, due in five minutes from now." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com John's psychologist was always happy, and he always had a smile on his dial.