What is required to go from 'rock bottom' to true happiness in your own terms?

i dont know - im at rock bottom now so i'll tell you when i make it true happiness (fingers crossed)What is required to go from 'rock bottom' to true happiness in your own terms?
Rock bottom is great because it is in that state when a person finally addresses all of the lies they have been telling themselves. I think everyone needs to hit rock bottom at least once in their lives in order to remove the blinders that keep them in the dark regarding their buried problems. True happiness comes when you acquire the ability to be completely honest with yourself. Self honesty doesn't mean you automatically turn in to an optimist either. Optimists are merely people who have not hit rock bottom yet...they still live in a Fantasy land of PMA (positive mental attitude) no matter what. In the real world, we have good days and we have bad days, there are good things and there are bad things. Rock bottom allows you to see everything for what it is, which is the ';real'; truth.





And you know what they say...the truth will set you free.What is required to go from 'rock bottom' to true happiness in your own terms?
Overcoming the odds. Realizing that happiness first comes from the inside, and outside things are a reflection of our inner self.


Winning the lottery might also have this effect, got to say, if only for a short while!
to me, i evaluate what is rock bottom, and i ponder about it hard enough til i realize that rock bottom wasn't so big of a fall after all.