{"id":2222,"date":"2017-02-28T20:12:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T14:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2017-03-01T16:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T10:31:09","slug":"random-thoughts-what-makes-us-unhappy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/28\/random-thoughts-what-makes-us-unhappy\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: What makes us Unhappy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Few weeks back, I asked a simple question on Twitter:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What is cause of unhappiness? \ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/koolhead17\/status\/830264228783218689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I ended up getting some interesting response.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Ego<\/strong>: Most of us are driven by Ego, If it is hurt I have a new enemy and if \u00a0nurtured friendship continues.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Expectation<\/strong>: We expect someone to act the way we want, we would expect things or situations to be in our sides. Most of the time it goes the other way.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Greed<\/strong>: Who does not want to be a millionaire or retire by 30?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guilt<\/strong>: Long lasting sadness of what one could have done in past.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Not living in this moment<\/strong>: We tend to over think about our future and bring misery or happiness of our past. \u00a0The present we are totally clueless about.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Get over these to get over unhappiness.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2225\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/state.jpg\" alt=\"state\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/state.jpg 480w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/state-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few weeks back, I asked a simple question on Twitter: What is cause of unhappiness? \ud83e\udd14 &mdash; Atul Jha (@koolhead17) February 11, 2017 I ended up getting some interesting response. Ego: Most of us are driven by Ego, If it is hurt I have a new enemy and if \u00a0nurtured friendship continues. Expectation: We expect &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/28\/random-thoughts-what-makes-us-unhappy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Random Thoughts: What makes us Unhappy?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}