Psychologists have a habit of focusing on the bad stuff. Family issues, growing up issues, peer group issues; its rare to see a psychologist with a focus on the good stuff. Why don't they ever ask what makes you happy?

Its a simple questions really. What makes you happy? Yet at times it can be the hardest thing to answer. Sometimes its just so easy to focus on all the things that are making us unhappy or sometimes we just get too caught up in what everyone else is doing that we forget what it is that we want to do for ourselves. Either way losing sight of genuine happiness is easy and gaining that happiness back isn't easy. Finding it does not simply occur with the acts of eating or entertainment. Those are short lived. What needs to occur for lasting happiness is fostered by the thoughts of Psychologist Martin Seligman and Aristotle. I think happiness come from finding meaning. A meaningful life. A life that isn't about hedonism but rather pursuing something bigger than oneself, acting in the service of others and fostering good relationships. Relationships that aren't fleeting, that are for the better.