There are two reasons why everybody works, has hobbies or just does actions that are needed to be done in order to survive.
- Survival – In order to survive you have to do a number of actions that guarantee your well being like sleeping, going to the bathroom, working to make money, to be able to pay for food, house, taxes, etc. You don’t have to love these actions and they don’t have to make you happy, but nevertheless you still have to do them.
- Happiness – Everybody wants to be happy, and we are happy when we do actions we love and want to do. These actions don’t have to be necessary but we still do them because they make us happy. Happiness isn’t the same with everybody, somebody might like and be happy when watching movies and somebody when cooking. Let’s say Mark’s hobby is reading and he reads a book every three days, but he doesn’t do it because he has to, he does it because he loves reading and it makes him happy.
Of course you can’t be happy all the time. You’re going to feel as much sadness, anger, envy, fear as happiness, and that’s perfectly normal. All we have to know is how to get back in our happy mood and that is very easy – just do what you love.