Examining where we've placed our happiness
"I'll be happy when..." We place our contentment just over the horizon. When we arrive, the horizon moves. The future we longed for becomes an ordinary present — and we start longing again.
This practice invites you to notice the pattern, and to ask: what if you didn't have to wait?
Five questions. A few minutes. Life might already be here.
What future are you waiting for?
Complete this sentence: "I'll be happy when..."
What's something you once longed for that now barely crosses your mind?
What are you not allowing yourself to feel until this arrives? Joy? Rest? Enoughness?
Imagine it's five years from now. You got it. Now you're there, on an ordinary Tuesday. What are you chasing next?
What's actually good right now that you're missing while you wait?
What if you didn't have to wait? What would you allow yourself to feel today?
The future keeps arriving and becoming now. Perhaps the life you're waiting for is already here — patient, quiet, ready to be noticed.