Happiness

It’s what everyone wants. It’s what everyone seeks. And yet how many can truly say that they’re there?

Maybe it’s our longing and expecting and running toward this elusive state of being that keeps it constantly, just out of our grasp. And then again, maybe we haven’t quite deciphered what exactly it means, more so, what it means for us. We confuse happiness with temporary highs, and so we go looking in all the wrong places. And feel cheated in our pursuit.

Perhaps, ‘looking’ for happiness is what blinds us to what we already have, to what is already here, in the now. Maybe, eventually, we do stop running and that’s when we figure that happiness has been with us all along. Not in our wishes, not in our hopes...not in our memories and not in our dreams.

It’s been right here all the while...in the familiar, the comfortable, the known. In everything we’ve taken for granted, and in everything that we miss, when we are far from it.

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And a song, in keeping with the spirit of things-
'Wonderful World' by Louis Armstrong :)