It’s the idea that you can be happy if you attain XYZ, if you make your life a certain way. If only you lived somewhere more peaceful, or had a different job, or had fewer possessions, or were in nature more, or whatever. If only, then you could finally be happy.

Let go. These ideas are traps because when we’re unhappy, we feel the need to latch onto an idea, something that we tell ourselves will make us happy.

Why is it that we’re unhappy? Have we ever stopped to ask ourselves that question? And if we don’t have an answer, or if we think that it’s because we don’t have XYZ, are we actually convinced that getting XYZ will make us happy?

Start with being happy. Then do things. Not the other way around.