What Is Happiness?
“Are you happy?” I asked my friend, one day.
“Yes and no! It depends on what you mean.” She said.
“Then tell me,” I said, “when was the last time you were happy?”
“Yeah, I went back home, met my parents and my lovely pet-dog, I missed them very much. Then my mother cooked delicious food. We got together at night. I couldn’t express my joy with words!” She answered slowly.
Her words were simple but it made me think deeply. Maybe different people have different opinions when it comes to the happiness. While we usually think of something ordinary in life, a pinnacle of sheer delight. And those pinnacles seem to get rarer the older we get.
For a child, happiness has a magical quality. Making hideouts, playing cops and robbers at home getting a speaking part in the school play are all lucky!
In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it’s conditional on such things as excitement, love popularity and so on. To the adults, they can get perfect love, successful business, harmonious family, those are wonderful. But they can’t own all in fact.
While happiness maybe more complex for us, the solution isn’t the same as ever. Happiness isn’t about what happens to us. It’s the knack of finding a positive for every negative, and viewing a setback as a challenge. It’s not wishing for what we don’t have, but enjoying what we do possessed!