I studied science in college. A lot of Chemistry, Physics and Math classes were taken every semester. It was very challenging and time consuming.
When I was in school, sometimes I regretted science. It took a long time to read the chapters since I had to do the exercises and each exercise consumed a lot of time to solve. I could see my college friends enjoying a lot of free time with their liberal arts major.
However, science became very useful through all my career and life. I credit all the thinking and pondering to helping me be a better problem solver. I get a kick of happiness after solving a complicated problem The more complicated, the more happiness I get – it feels like conquering something extraordinary.
But, there are many things that science did not teach me. First, it didn’t teach me to be popular or famous. It didn’t even teach me to make plenty of money.
Those were minor things but very important for my happiness.
Even with my good problem solving skills, I had a hard time getting ahead in life. I was not happy where I was and was going.
The good thing is that all the lab work that I did for my science class were useful… if I knew how to use that knowledge. You do an experiment, you get data and you analyze them to see if they are getting the results you expected.
First, it didn’t hit me until a few years later. Every event my life… every mistake I made… and every little or large disaster I experience… they were data for me to analyze.
You see, our life is like an experiment. Happiness is the result you expect out of life.
So, how do I view life when it hit me?
I took every data (mistakes and achievements), looked at it and analyzed it to see if they were doing what I expected. If not, then I will have to adjust my experiment (my life) to get the data I need to achieve my end results of happiness.
It’s pretty simple but it’s not easy to do. Achieving your happiness will take a lot of trial and errors. You might be lucky and get it quick and fast. But, even then, it does takes a lot of effort on your part.
The best person to do that is you and only you. You have control over your life and can adjust your life as needed to achieve your happiness.