Don’t Let Anyone Define Your Happiness

First of all, I am so sorry for being on hiatus from Medium for a while, was caught up in my other personal projects. Hopefully will come back stronger to write and give more on this platform throughout 2024 and the upcoming years In Shaa Allah.

As the title said, do not ever let anyone define your happiness. This is actually what has been striking me the last few weeks when one of my friends during our meetup, said to me “Shawal, you such a boring person lah. You should travel more.” It was because travel is his hobby. I just smiled at him. But of course, it led me to overthink that statement when I got back home hahahahaha.

But I am very sure even I am trying so hard to forget about his statement. I would not be able to do that unless I sit, focus, and ponder about it. and yes, I did that. I did sit, and ponder about it. Am I a boring person? Okay, I don't wanna care about what other people think about me, but am I a boring person for, myself? and of course no! hahahaha I am enjoying my life very much now.

You have to understand one thing, in this world, not everyone wants to get happiness through travel. Happiness and fulfillment served everyone in a very different way. Some people do enjoy travel, some people do enjoy hiking on different mountains each weekend, some people love to spend some time window shopping, some…