What is happiness?
Is it the money you have? Is it the food you eat? Is it the movies you watch? Is it the books you read? Is it the friends and family you have? Or is it the fire in your heart?
If it’s the fire, where can I find it? Can someone please tell me how to find it?
I don’t know where my little fire go. Is it lost? Or is it that I never truly had it.
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I think very, very few people never feel it. If I knew where it was I’d send you in the right direction. Still searching…
Thank you. Let’s share it if we do find it X)
But still kinda scary though. Don’t know why.
🙂
I think it’s the worst thing you can lose. It’s basically essential to feeling alive – it’s not even necessarily to actually feel it, just to know it’s something you’ll find again. I just read Tristeza’s comment and I guess happiness is a Platonic idea, but from the way people talk about feeling happy makes it sound like they’re surrounded by happiness. It’s not something you need to feel all the time, but it’s comforting to know it’s ‘close’. I don’t know about you but for me it feels so, so faraway, and I can’t remember how it felt. I don’t think anyone realises how important happiness is until they’ve lost it. For some people it never seems so far away.
It is, isn’t it?
I really do wish you find yours. 🙂
Cliché, I know, but I don’t think that “happiness” exists. That’s not exactly a bad thing though. Happy moments exist, happiness doesn’t. That’s why looking for happiness always leads to nothing (but frustration). Enjoy your happy moments and learn from the bad things that you have to endure.
To me having fire in your heart means having hope… I have no idea how to maintain it alive. I always say I have hope, but my hope is fake. It’s just like placebo to me, I think. It keeps me going though…
Thank you. Yes. You said it.
Well. I guess even if it’s fake, if you’re going places then I guess there would be a time when you’ll notice it became genuine.
Thank you too.
You’re welcome.
Happiness does exist for me, because I feel it. In the simplest way, let me describe it like this:
You are alone, with your social media off, alone in the darkness of your room, cut off from the world, not communicating with anyone. Just doing what you like. Watching the stars, drinking tea, playing games. And you feel you don’t worry about tomorrow, you don’t care what the future holds. You don’t mind if things will never change, because you are content with what you are and what you have. And you just wish that night will never end. This is happiness: the feeling of being content at the moment and not needing anything else in the world. You don’t ever need a family, a lover, friends, or achievements.
It happened to me. Trust me, it is a wonderful feeling. It is beautiful. I wish more people could feel it.
This happened to me too, not many times, but I can remember feeling very relaxed and free after midnight. Granted, I didn’t have the problems I have right now. Yes it is a wonderful feeling.
About happiness, it is such a complex concept. There are many things that can make one happy, and everybody has to find it by himself/herself and how important it is to pursue. Sometimes things that make you happy comes from nowhere, happens unexpectedly. Happy moments occur in many different ways.
Being in a state of happiness is I think harder to define and harder to attain. If happiness means having no problems, there is almost nobody happy in the world. If it means being content with your situation, then there are more people who are happy. I just know that even having everything you can want and having only few problems doesn’t necessarily make you happy. I know people who basically have everything: money, respect, a great family, no health problems ever and still not happy at all.
Long story short, it is a question that only you can find the answer to. Having different experiences, being under different conditions will help you find what makes you happy I guess.
Yes. You are absolutely right. Thank you for the insightful thought 🙂
That was beautiful. Thank you 🙂
Truth to be told, I want to open up a café. A small one in a place where nature sprouts.
But sometimes, reality can be a *****. Specially if you’re living in a third world country.
If you look deep within yourself you will find it.
True happiness doesn’t come when you are “on the top”, like having been promoted, attained a championship, won a lottery, or bought a house. It also doesn’t come from other’s companion like midnight chat with your best friend or getting drunk in a party. Sometimes people mistake happiness for pride, for satisfaction, freedom, fulfillment, or dependency. True happiness is felt during your lowest and darkest hour, when you have nothing else. It rises from your own self, it swells from inside your heart and it makes you be a better person. It makes you want to share it with other people.
I know this sounds cheesy and cliche and all, but I am speaking based on my experiences. In reality not many people can find true happiness within themselves.
Thank you. 🙂
I am glad that you found happiness 🙂
I wish there are more to come.
Thank you. I do wish to find it soon enough
we’re all born with fire; some learn how to build a campfire and stoke it. some of us circumstances smother the flame. but as long as there once was a spark, there is hope to reignite something deep inside for life once more.
Once we go inward we see peace is only found inside. Some say money doesnt buy you happiness, but it buys you the yacht to sail right up to it. Money is a resource. a means to an end. not the end itself. as long as source is as the sacred tool that it is i feel it can work for us and the goal of actualizing a state of peace and happiness or at least contentment.
Thank you for these words. They’re beautiful and make sense. Haha 😀
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