When do i get to stop making everyone else happy?
SaltWaterSoul
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Nov 29, 2018
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Today. We will never be able to make everyone else happy, as each person is responsible for their own happiness. The more we try to take responsibility for the happiness of others, the more we are destined to fail. The more we take care of ourselves, and seek our own peace and joy, the more we actually have to offer others. Letting go of the idea that we can make others happy is a powerful step in self-growth. There is nothing wrong with wanting others around you to be happy, but accept that whether they are or not is beyond your control.
braveEagle17
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Dec 5, 2018
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From my experience it is when you realise that to make others happy you need to be happy too. Your well needs to be filled to be able to give to others. Learning about boundaries is a way to get to this point of realising that by making everyone else happy, you lose yourself. It is a choice you have to make to be happy and still make others happy. You also have to think whether it is realistic to want to make everyone happy. If making others happy is important to you, it is about finding balance between being happy and still making others happy.
Anonymous
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Jan 5, 2019
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Honestly, why woud you want to make others happy? When you make others happy you get good feelings yourself. It is of course something else,when you dedicate your life to it. What you need to find is a good amount of healthy egoism. Yes, selfishness can be good, in a cerain amount. That is the amount that allows you to say Ëno,Ë when it comes to you having to do something that makes you uncomfortable, sad, scared... So all you have to do is learn how to stand up for yourself! Start to respect yoursef. And do not dedicate your life to makng others happy. First you have to take care of yourself. If you are not okay, you can't help others.
Anonymous
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Jan 6, 2019
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When they stop caring about you. When they take too much advantage from you. When they make you depressed or miserable. When they don't appreciate you. When they lost their senses of humanity. When they become selfish. When they don't take everything seriously. When they act injustice to people. When they not giving what supposed to be your right. When you can't sleep at night. When you have your tears down your face. When you feel pain in your chest. When you want to stop taking care of yourself. When you kill your own feeling to meet the criteria.
Anonymous
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Feb 7, 2019
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Wanting to make everyone else in your life happy is very normal and can be a good thing if done when you have the correct priorities. The most important person is your life is you. Make sure you are okay and comfortable with your own feelings and how to deal with your feelings appropriately before you try to help everyone else in your life. This is a positive thing and something the people in your life will appreciate but they will also appreciate you helping yourself first. The help you give your friends and family will be much more effective if you aren't feeling down.
Giselle7
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Feb 17, 2019
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When you realise that it is an impossible feat. There will always be someone who will not be pleased with what you have said or done. All you can do is to give it your best shot. Often it is easy to forget that your happiness is important too in the rush to make everybody else happy. Ask yourself if you have taken the time to do things to make yourself happy. You cannot control how other people react to you. Let it go and live a little. Your happiness is more important than pleasing other people. The more you try to please others, the more miserable you will be.
Nukfi
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Feb 24, 2019
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When you don't feel to do it, emotionally speaking... You go first, you must take care of yourself to do it to other people. If not, you won't be able to do it for yourself and for the other person.
We all must take care of ourselves. This way, we will do other things much better, taking care of other people included.
I realized this years ago, and I'm still learning to do it. It is not easy, but, when you try this, you are putting yourserlf first, putting up your self-care. It's not selfish: it is necessary. It's a must,
BetterToday92
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Mar 27, 2019
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You never have to make everyone else happy. Your question makes me think you are not happy. If that is true, remember back to a time you were happy. What did you like about that time? What could you recreate in your life now that you think would make you happy?
Something that might be good as a way to start thinking about to recreate happiness for ourselves is to think of the idea of balance. Ask yourself when you felt like you had achieved balance between striving and resting, between do what you need and helping others on their journeys, etc. It might be that your life is out of balance right now and that you need to claim more space for yourself.
I suspect, deep down, you know the conversations you need to have with people to get more space and time to spend doing things that make you happy.
psychedusoleil
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May 2, 2019
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It all begins with realizing how trying to make everyone else happy drains and wears you out till your bones. We do not have to make anyone happy. We're responsible only for our own happiness. We also must remember that we can't pour from an empty cup, first we have to fill our own cup so that we can provide love and happiness for others. Loving and making ourselves happy let us show others love and compassion. However, if we skip ourselves and only focus on making others happy, we will never succeed, because you can give people only what you have in you.
windfox3
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Jun 14, 2019
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Right now! You have to embrace the path to your own happiness. It is only we, ourselves who can make us happy, only we ourselves who can fulfill the dreams that we desire. We cannot complete another person's happiness, only our own. Likewise, other people must pursue their path of happiness and stop trying to use us or our efforts as a crutch or excuse as to why they are not happy. Every person is responsible for their own happiness, if they are making choices that make them unhappy, that is their own problem. They must find accountability for their poor decisions and rise up to the challenge to make better future choices that feed into their own happiness.
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