We constantly chase happiness in future chapters or other people's lives, but it only lives in being present with what's here now. The speaker offers a mantra: extract the greatest joy from every moment you're actually in, rather than looking elsewhere for fulfillment.
We often think that the life someone else is living is the life that will fulfill us if we were living it too. The single are convinced that marriage will complete them. People who are married are convinced that freedom lives on the other side. People who are unseen want recognition, and people who have so much recognition want to disappear. Some are starving for love, Others feel crushed by the weight of constantly being needed by someone. There is a pattern that wherever we are, we often want to be somewhere else. Our mind is addicted to imagining that fulfillment exists somewhere else. So wherever you are, desire keeps pulling your attention away from the moment. Happiness doesn't live in another chapter of your life. It lives in the capacity to be present with this one. Here's a mantra for you: I do not look to the future, nor do I look at someone else's life to find my happiness. I desire to extract the greatest joy from every moment that I am present in.
