Hello!
As I am sure most of us are aware, the winter holidays are coming up and Christmas is right around the corner! For those of you who celebrate, Merry Christmas! For those of you who don’t, Merry Christmas! I am finishing off school for the break and now there will be some holidays, I am hoping that during this break from work we will all be happy and that we spend it well. It is the season of giving, just like it should be all the time I believe but sometimes we forget, and that is normal. The important part is being able to remember.
Today I will talk about something a little off topic if that is alright...What is happiness?
Happiness to many people bears many definitions. There are those who think of happiness as a large container to fill and only until it reaches an adequate level do they consider it “full”-filled. There are others who consider it as a piece of paper, similar to one that you would get at a graduation event or a type of promotion. Another possible version of happiness to some people is themselves! This sounds strange when you first think about it but this is rather the better truth. My personal opinion of happiness is myself and that is because only I can control my emotions and feelings; events as well as objects only trigger them.
I think this because I believe that whatever object or event comes, we were the ones who brought it there in the first place. For example, if you want a fancy house, you either rob a bank (which I do not recommend) and buy yourself the house or work hard and get the house anyway. One is safer than the other but they are both things that YOU have done to get the house in the first place. The same applies to sadness but I would rather presume that no one living on this earth would like to have sadness on purpose. Unfortunately though, it comes being slapped in our faces by life and each of us has to face it in one way or another. Happiness in my opinion all depends on you.
Moreover, if happiness really does depend on you then that means that even without those original pair of shoes that everyone is wearing or that cool tv...you don’t need it to be really happy...because if you did, you would have never felt joy before having it, you would have never felt any spark in your entire life before having those things. When you were a baby, why were you happy? Because you had a cool tv or cool shoes or because you were loved by someone. Though that is just an example.
This is why it is dangerous for people who cannot bring their own happiness and I am not talking about “I do not have enough money to buy myself a PS5” but the happiness of surviving and being able to live a life at all. This is also one reason why I am making this effort.
Thank you to the ones who have already donated something, it means a lot and I am looking forward to seeing bits of more money being slipped in from other people! Anything at all! I promise you it will definitely make someone happy.
Have a marvelous day/evening! One more thing, don’t forget to smile!!!
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