Finding happiness your way

One of the blogs I follow, Get Rich Slowly, had a guest post recently about how people have different paths to happiness.

In short, the writer says that people often think there's one path to finding happiness, so they try to just follow that path step by step instead of doing what is right for them at the time.

I also recently began reading "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert. I've seen a bit of a similar theme in the beginning part of the book. Gilbert struggles in her marriage for many reasons, among them the feeling that she SHOULD want a child after age 30 even though she realizes she doesn't.  That's obviously the right path or timing for some people, but as the discovers it isn't right for her and she explores other paths for her happiness.