HAPPINESS
Many intellectuals such as poets, literary geniuses, and even scientists have tried to define love over the years. Happiness is yet another concept that is hard to define. Think for a minute.
What makes you happy? The color yellow is supposed to elicit the emotion depending on what mood you are in. Exercise releases endorphins that have been scientifically proven to make you happy.
Contentment is another word associated with happiness. If you are content does that mean that you are happy? Contentment means that you are satisfied with the status quo. You may not have everything you want in life, but you are content with what you have at this point in time, but it does not necessarily mean that you are happy. There are some people that spend a lifetime trying to achieve happiness. Others believe that it is unattainable so why try.
Society is under the impression that materialism can make you happy. The same rule applies for happiness as it does for love. Money can't buy it. So what can make us happy? It seems to me that people look at happiness as a goal for their lives when happiness shouldn't be a goal. The goals that you set for yourself and achieve can make you happy, but happiness really isn't an achievement.
No wonder there are so many unhappy people including myself in the world we've been looking at happiness through a dim bulb when we should be seeing it through the brightest light. Happiness unlike love is just within our reach. Love comes to us freely as a gift. On the other hand, happiness is a decision we make for ourselves. Do you want to be happy or unhappy? The choice is clearly yours.
posted by TB Fly @ 9:12 PM
1 Comments:
That's a great way to look at life.
Our life is what we make of it. I wrote a few blog entries last year about "what we want" including how we search for happiness inside ourselves and others seeking it in someone or something else.
To me, happiness is a cool, cloudy day out on the lake, by myself. I consider myself a fairly pleasant and sociable person however, after working 70+ hours each week greeting and conversing with many coworkers and clients I long for those rare moments to be alone. The sounds of wind in my ears, waves slapping the boat's bow, red-winged blackbirds sounding off in the bushes....that's happiness...brief and simple as it may be.
Remember Curly, in City Slickers? He said there's one thing in life that's most important...he held up his finger....the secret was to find that one thing in YOUR life.
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