Are you searching for happiness and looking for that magic way to wake up one day and find it waiting right beside you?;
Happiness isn't a lottery ticket… it doesn't just show up suddenly and stay by your side for a lifetime! Besides, that would be boring… like never feeling hungry ever again… what would it be like to live completely full for your whole life? To never feel your stomach rumble with hunger again?;
It works differently…
Fairytales taught us about happiness: “they lived happily ever after”, except we aren't any happier than the fairytale protagonists… to cope with the happy ending, we need a pill…
We don't have their happiness… eternal happiness, and we wait for that magical moment when, usually, someone else appears before us (bringing happiness with them!) and suddenly we transition from endless sadness to eternal bliss…
It doesn't work that way…
You notice that happiness, just like all emotions, comes and goes… they alternate…
Joy is made of moments… a look from your loved one… a word… a caress…
What has happened that you don't have them? What is stopping you from living what you were made to experience?;
it requires you to look at your darkest parts, deep within yourself… it takes courage, effort, time, tears, and toil for those moments… it requires saying no to those who put obstacles in your path…
you know.. you accepted those obstacles back then, when you didn't understand because to you a parent was like having God himself standing in front of you…
Perhaps you'll say: is all that worth it just for a few moments?;
Yes, all that and much more are worth it!
So over time… first you'll learn to cry from pain and then from joy… little by little with every “deposit” you make to the account of unfinished business left behind you, those moments will become more and more frequent… but don't forget, they will remain moments…
Honestly, might you already be happy… how many moments of happiness did you feel today?;
Seek to live moments of happiness… I remember some time ago a sweet figure told me: “life is made of moments, and whoever wins many will one day journey happily towards the sunset..”..”