Sometimes we're wrong about the things that make us happy. Take shopping, for example. You go to a shop looking for a gorgeous dress to wear to *insert occasion here*. (Or a shirt if you're a guy.) You find the perfect dress - great colour, looks gorgeous. But they don't have any in your size. You try the next size up or down, but it's too big/too small. Big disappointment.
At the time, we think the world of this dress. We think this beautiful dress is the answer to all of our self-confidence worries. In this dress, we will look amazing, we will feel amazing, and everyone will agree that we're just plain awesome.
But then the occasion will be over, we'll have to go to work the next morning, and the dress will go back in the wardrobe. The dress won't make the commute to work any less stressful, it won't make Monday go any quicker, and it won't bring the weekend any faster. It's not a miracle worker! In fact, in a few months you'll be stood in front of your wardrobe looking for something to wear, and you'll find that dress again. But it won't look as new and shiny as it did before. You'll take it out of the wardrobe, hold it up against you, say "hmm, nah..." and put it back. Then you'll go looking for the next gorgeous miracle-working dress. You won't even feel like the dress is quite as fit for what you wanted it for in the first place, never mind all the hopes you had pinned on it about looking and feeling amazing forever. Because even if it did make you feel good for one night, it wouldn't make you feel that way all the time. Only you can do that. This is just another example of the impermanence of, well, everything, and how when everything is changing around us, it's so important to be able to rely on our own minds to bring us happiness.
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