Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Happiness

Happiness.
We are all striving to be happy.
I think that many people are confused about what that is exactly. I know so many people who have unfulfilling jobs they go to all day long. They are not making any kind of contribution, they don't feel significant, they are just getting through for the pay check at the end of the week. Then, they come home each night to watch their 'shows'. Hours and hours and hours are spent watching television. Shows based in murder, cheating, cruelty, human suffering or mindless behavior . Then of course there are the commercials convincing them that they are not enough and they don't have enough. They only see their children for 3 hrs each night. That time is all about an instant dinner, home work, bath, bed. Then back to the job. All this is in the name of surviving till the weekend. Finally, its the weekend. You can have a weekend at home... mow, clean, grocery shop..TV? Then they they are happy....its time to go to the casino, or the bar - Lets go to the mall and mill around until we find the very thing we didn't know we couldn't live without.
I think they are confusing happiness with adrenalin. A quick rush of adrenalin and they think they are happy. They aren't because by Monday they are back to the grind and they are as miserable as always.
That's because happiness is not located outside of yourself. "True happiness is to be found within, in the state of our hearts. It does not exist on the far side of some distant mountains. It is within you, yourself. However much you try, you can never run away from yourself. And if you are weak, suffering will follow you wherever you go. You will never find happiness if you don't challenge your weaknesses and change yourself from within."
Happiness is is found within. It is said that 'ignorance is bliss'. It often seems this is true but really its not. You have to open your mind, over come your 'issues', find your purpose, embrace your reality then you'll find happiness.

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