Ceiling on Desires

People settling for less upsets me. I don't know why. Maybe because I
think "this person THINKS they're happy but they're not." not only are
they not happy but they don't even realize it. Or rather they do but
they either think it's good enough, or they just don't think about it.
It upsets me because I have such high standards for... Everything, it
scares me to think if normal people can't even find true happiness
what hope do I have.

People settle for jobs they don't really like but tell themselves that
either they get paid enough or they like what they're doing. People
don't like the stuff they have but they tell themselves they don't
need anything more, or maybe what they have is good enough. The worst
is the one you love. How many people do you think know true love. I
dont think you can truly love someone unless you trust them completely
(or at least on the stuff that matters), respect them completely in
their opinions even if you don't agree, and are willing to change
anything about yourself for them BUT (and this is probably the most
important part) you don't have to because you both already work
together. Maybe true love is fleeting: two who are perfect together
today may be no good at all for each other tomorrow. Maybe that's why
highschool love never lasts. Maybe it is true love at the time but
then you both mature into different people. Maybe nobody ever really
finds someone worth loving, so we invent a lower level of infatuation,
call it love, and we all just settle. I think thats what breaks my
heart the most.

It's almost like there's a gauge for happiness, like a thermometer.
The mercury is how content you are, and the top of the thermometer is
when your at your most blissful state. And temperature is your
environment, the things affecting how happy we are. We spend our whole
lives either trying to change the environment so we can be happier, or
chopping down the top of the thermometer, learning to live with less
and pretending it's good enough.

Really what we need is to increase the mercury without changing
anything else: learning to truly be happier with what we have. Force yourself

to actually BE happier with what you have, not change your perception

of things to make it SEEM like you're happier (or happiest given the situation)