The secret that leads to happiness, is to try to became a better person.

First of all, i apologize for the syntactical mistakes i made in my previous text. I tried to fix them during the 'Review' section, before i post my text, but somehow they were not saved and the non corrected version was uploaded. :P Now to begin with, i believe that none of us, no human at all, is perfect, because all of us suffer from negative emotions like jealousy, anger, hate etc. Sadly this is a part of our nature and it is what define us as humans... imperfections. All humans make mistakes (like the syntax in my texts haha) and bad deeds and therefore none of us can be considered perfect. The best we can do, is to try to better ourselves and became a better persons, just's and good, in order to approach perfection as much as possible, without sadly ever been able to reach it. Therefore, i do also disagree, that a person can be exactly were he is supposed to be, since we can all better ourselves and strife to became superior to what we were yesterday. I do not mean to push your self to your limits, or anything like that, but only to improve your character and your mental state. I am not saying that in order to find happiness you have to spend the rest of your life trying to became better and better in your area (that would obviously not lead you to happiness), e.g. to became the best chess player ever, but to better the most important thing you have, your character, your ego, your soul if i am allowed to say. I will agree with you that it is important for someone to be able to love himself as he is, but as i explained i do not think that this is the road to true happiness. Perhaps it is more like a big step :) I also agree that comparing yourself with other people or norms not only does not lead anywhere near happiness but it is a barrier towards reaching it. If god created us perfect, then perfection also includes all the evil that is spread across earth and all the bad thing people do to each other. That does not seem like perfection to me. Look around! this world is far from perfect! If we were already perfect there would be no room for improvement (i am talking about the human character) and i do not want to believe that we are doomed as a race (or even me as a being), to repeat the same mistakes again and again or to perform the same bad and evil things humanity does to itself since the beginning of history. If this is God's version of perfect, then God must be mean and that is not the case. I think you are referring to the bible, at the point where it says that human was created by God at his image. If this is the case, consider that it does not refer to the human body, but at the human spirit. According to the religion, human is supposed to perfect in spirit only, not as in spirit and body that he is now. This is the reason that in ancient philosophical orders (e.g. Orphics) the body was described as the tomb of the spirit and the soul. I do not disagree to the part that you state ' Happiness comes from clarity and developing a clear understanding of yourself, your thoughts, your intentions, and connectedness to your soul', because by doing this things you make yourself a better person and elevate yourself and i believe this is the road to happiness :)