If it is real then how come you don't stay happy all the time? After doing something great, you get a sensation that is temporary. If what you did make you happy then how come you are unable to repeat to get the same feeling again?
Happiness is the overall state of mind. When good or bad or neutral, you can feel the same happy feeling all the time then that is the happiness that many long for.
Ever heard the line, if it isn't for me, let it be for others. Now to get there, one has to reach enlightenment and to me that is where the true happiness can be found.
I win, I'm happy. I lose, I'm happy for you. Happy all the time.
Of course, a happy event will stay happy forever. At the moment the event taking place, your state of happiness is at it's highest but eventually down the road, when you think about it, still bring you happiness.... Think of a happy thought many years ago... still get butterfly in your stomache now right? See.....
The mind is not always sound and the eyes deceives us into believing what is often not. I once thought I knew and often sought with the eyes, it is human nature to do so. But when I finally didn't, that was when I understood what happiness truly consists of.
Would you believe me if I said, I found Love right here? Well it's true, I Love someone right from here, not knowing, not seeing... Just did.
I have this saying, "God didn't create one special person just for us, He created everyone special. If we listen to anyone's life, we come to see that it's our life they're living. We all want the same, believe it or not. But we can't see it because it's their life and we can't possibly believe that we are like everyone else. Besides, we're suppose to be unique. But we are all traveling on the same hwy of life. If we spend enough time with someone and we give it every chance to be happy with that person, we will have it.
Happiness isn't just about the goods. It is the bad that makes us appreciate the good. Good is just a word without bad. Happiness is just a word without sadness. It is the sadness in life that gives happiness meaning. When we try to run away from sadness to find happiness, we go searching for something that doesn't exist.
Since the eye and mind are unreliable, what do you rely on? J/W. And how long did that love you found lasted? J/W…
Since God created everyone special and not just one special person for someone, do you believe in “finding your rib?”
Human beings we are want to be happy and loved, that’s a fact. It’s also a fact we each have a unique way to achieve them. Some selfishly (only think of me, myself, and I), some depends on our values, cultures, traditions, upbringing, etc.. (back to my original post).
Happiness and gratitude are very similar. Happiness is that feeling your heart, mind, soul, can’t stop smiling, floating, that blissful feelings you just don’t ever want it to end, that “I’m empower to do anything” feeling, etc… Gratitude is a feeling of “thankfulness”…
When bad experiences happened, gratitude take over rather than happiness, in my opinion. Ex: heartbreaks – it’s a sad experience but “gratitude” for going through the experience so a person know what that’s like. Another, loving someone (one sided love/ir-reciprocal love) – gratitude for the experience – that phrase “it’s better to love than never to have love at all) a perfect example of gratitude.