The Red Shoes Are Not the Cause of Your Joy

If happiness was brought about by a person, then we'd all marry and live happily ever after with the person we first fell in love with. They seem to be the cause of our joy - but five years later they become the source of our misery. An object can never make us happy. A child can never make me happy. Can they make us unhappy? Ultimately, no. It's not the child that makes us unhappy. It'sWe who give our circumstances the permission to take us away from ourself. This is something we should all be taught early in life. But to invest once again in an object, a substance or a relationship is a recipe for misery.