Where feelings come from

Dear Friends,

Sometimes it takes a real life lesson to learn what you have studied. Similarly as it is put, knowledge comes from learning, wisdom comes from application or experience.

In the book The Rules of Life, rule 35 states, Know where True Happiness comes from.

Now, we all know how happy we are when we get the things we want, or good things happen. But these things only trigger the good feelings inside us. It does not create the feelings. We OURSELVES create the feelings.

To simply put it, we can feel whatever we want to in whatever situation. Its how you look at it. No one likes the no. 4, but in Hokkien, it is closer to xi, or happiness. One person wrote, when she got a 4 leaf clover lucky charm, she got into an accident not long after but managed to escape unscathed. She thought she was lucky, but I thought she was unlucky, if not why did she get into an accident?

So now you can stop being angry at the person who hurt you, because the anger was not caused by him but you. So now you can be happy, or at least try, even if you don't get what you want.

Aaron