Most people aren’t happy because they are often focused on what they don’t have, on what they want to achieve, on what they would like to get in their lives. People usually underestimate the things they have.

There’s a saying in Spanish that says: “You don’t know what you have until you’ve lost it” (No sabes lo que tienes hasta que lo pierdes). I don’t know if this saying, or similar, exists in English too, but I think is true. When you lose something or someone you’ve always had and never cared about (not enough at least), you realize that that was important in your life and now it’s gone.

People can spend lots of time dreaming about how much better their lives could be but I don’t think they wonder how many important things they could lose and how much worse their lives could become.

Obviously, it’s good to have goals and aspirations but, people should pay more attention to real life (what they own, people who love them, good things that there are currently in their lives…) than to potential better things they could reach in the future.

Some people are more conformist, other people are more demanding or perfectionist but, in the end, I think that most people tend to never be happy because they always want something else and it’s never enough.

P.S. Thank you all for helping me :-)