HAPPINESS! WHEN WILL WE EVER FIND IT?

Everyone wants it,
Everyone craves for it.
Unfortunately, not everyone finds it.
Those that find it,
Rarely get a chance to keep it.

What is happiness really? How do we even know when we have achieved happiness in our lives? Different people have different ways to keep themselves happy. Some like to use external sources to satisfy this addiction of theirs: Television programs, computer games, shopping, chatting, eating and even sleeping for long hours. As I look around me and observe the people who walked cross my path, I realized that this "happiness" seldom last long. Could this be nothing more than delusion?

Isn't it a wonder too why some turn to alcohol, durgs and smoking to make themselves happy? How can consuming something so toxic be a way of true happiness? If this is the only way, then some would rather keep themselves well and alive than simply to waste their lives away for that puff of happiness.

To me, happiness must come from within. Some can find happiness by doing nothing at all. Some do things that seem mundane to others yet to them it brings them a sense of euphoria and ultimate pleasure. For example, a couple goes for a picnic along the beach. To many, it could be a waste of time and something rather frivalous. Yet, these two people whose paths have met perhaps by fate or destiny are sharing a moment that people will never be able to understand or appreciate. Happiness cannot be explained, defined or quantified. It is simply a feeling deep from within that when you feel it, you know!

Here is some food for thought: Have you found your happiness? How do you know it is there?

"It is not that people do not know what to think but rather people cannot stop thinking" - the book THE POWER OF NOW