You can only be happy with the people, places, things you love. And love is crazy, it makes you take insane decisions but love also ensures that you can happily live with those decisions and make the best out of them. So the trick often is not to take the decision that is in your best rational interest or seems to be, but to take a decision that you love - you would never regret it.
Simply put, pursue your bliss. Deep inside yourself, you already know where your bliss lies. It is just a matter of discovering what you already know and accepting it.
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You are quite right. I have always insisted that one must keep listening to one's heart. Rationality, in my opinion, lies in the eyes of the beholder. I think we all are rational beings - utility maximisers. The trouble is that the modern world knows only how to quantify certain things in life and assumes that rationality can be a universal concept. It isn't so. If we find happiness in certain things and not necessarily in quantifiable material goods and make our choice accordingly, that does not mean we are not rational. We are still making a decision to maximise our utility...isn't it? We are still being rational...aren't we? Love too gives us happiness. But unfortunately it is impossible to measure.
Long-term and short-term implications of our choices are not adequate to determine what are rational choices. (If it were so, we would have termed most central banks as irrational and wouldn't have believe Keynes that in the long run we are all dead.)
I agree with you.
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