HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS

We’ve all have wondered about our live’s purpose. We have imagined different and multiple scenarios where we achieve what we want most: power, acceptance, success, etc. We’ve all wanted the same things, but what would happen if we could have it all?

Hector always wanted to be something else in life; he has a cute and intelligent girlfriend, he is a successful psychiatrist, he has a dog. We can call it a good life. But there was something missing. Why was he not happy? Had he achieved everything a human being can? But, why was he unhappy? What did he do wrong? He knew he was meant to do something else, he knew deep inside he could be HAPPY.

One night, Hector and Clara go to a restaurant to celebrate the success of Tranqualine. Clara’s boss is happy that Clara never left them for a maternity leave and is totally devoted to the company without the interference of children. He thought of his life and his sense of happiness: his life now feels like a drag, he starts losing patience towards his patients and eventually snaps.

He needs to make a journey to find himself and try to find happiness. In his journey he gathers information and writes what makes you happy:

1. Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

2. A lot of people think happiness is being rich or important.

3. Many people see happiness only in their future.

4. Happiness could be the freedom to love more than one woman at the same time.

5. Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

6. Avoiding unhappiness is not the road to happiness.

7. Does the person you’re with bring you predominately A): Up or B): Down?

8. Happiness is answering your calling.

9. Happiness is being loved for who you are.

10. Sweet Potato Stew!

11. Fear is an impediment to happiness.

12. Happiness is feeling completely alive.

13. Happiness is knowing how to celebrate.

14. Listening is loving.

15. Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

Hector realizes that he doesn’t need such a big adventure; he already had what he wanted but he didn’t want to be happy because he was so focused on pleasing others and controlling everything that he had forgotten to enjoy life and those little details that life already had.

Being happy is letting go of things and lose control of time and enjoy what we already have: the present.