Your Happiness is Your Job
by Michael Feeley
This cuts to the heart of the matter: we outsource our happiness, then resent the world for failing us.
We wait. For the promotion. For someone to notice. For circumstances to align. We’ve made happiness conditional—something earned through external validation rather than claimed through internal choice.
But happiness isn’t a prize the world awards for good behavior. It’s a practice, a discipline, a decision renewed each morning.
You’re not passive in this. You’re the architect. Every moment you choose where to place your attention—on what’s broken or what works, on absence or presence, on resentment or gratitude. The miraculous sits beside the mundane, waiting for you to notice.
Existential responsibility means this: you are the author of your life’s meaning. No divine plan absolves you. No circumstances excuse you. You didn’t ask to exist, but here you are, and now you must decide what your existence means and how you’ll live it. Sartre called it being “condemned to be free.”
You’re not a victim of life happening to you. You’re a participant creating life through you.
The world doesn’t owe you joy. But joy is available in every present moment you’re willing to inhabit fully.
Your happiness isn’t the world’s job. It’s yours. That’s the weight and the gift of being human.
Stop waiting. Start choosing and taking responsibility for your happiness.
Thanks – Michael (he, him)
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