I was talking to one of my friends who was telling me how badly she wanted to find love.
I
didn't feel that her words were strange because lots of people want to
find love however when she continued saying "I want to find love in
order to be truly happy" I was shocked, my jaw dropped and felt like I
have to give a lecture about the relationship between true happiness and
love!!
Trying to find love is something good but if you are
trying to find love in order to feel happy then there is something going
wrong with your life, because after all if you are a disorder free
person then you should be feeling great without being in a relationship
and even greater when you are in one.
The myth of finding love and happiness together
Most
people don't understand how happiness work and thanks to the movies
they only believe in the magical pill solution where they can find
happiness instantly right doing a certain action such as getting in a
relationship.
Usually people who search for love in order to be
happy are the ones with messed up lives and who want to escape from this
mess by finding a pain killer such as a good relationship.
Because
of the hormones that get released as soon as a person gets into a new
relationship the person manages to forget for a little while about his
already existing pain.
So the relationship in such a case serves
the role of a pain killer to an already messed up life, but the question
is, if that person's life wasn't messed up, would he have thought that
way?
Of course not, if the person's life was normal he would have
been feeling good on his own and better with a loving partner not
horrible on his own and fine when in a relationship.
The problem of trying to find love
Now let me tell you the great problems that happen when a person seeks love just to feel happy:
*
Wrong choices: Because the person who is trying to find love for that
reason looks for a quick fix he usually makes wrong choices or even
worse decides to get into a relationship with the first available option
*
He suffers the most after a breakup: The ones who seek relationships to
fix their moods are the ones who suffer the most after breakups. Right
after losing their pain killer they started experiencing the horrible
emotions they were experiencing before and so feel really bad
*
Reality shock: After the chemicals that were released at the beginning
of the relationship start fading the person finds himself feeling sad
once again but at this point he discovers that he doesn't have a clue
about the next step, he thought that finding love was his only way to
happiness and now that he doesn't know any other way he feels helpless
and depressed.
* Problem remain there and resurface after a while:
Since the person's problems were never solved by escaping to a
relationship, the problems remain there and then come to the surface as
soon as the slightest problem happen to the relationship