What exactly is happiness? Is it possible to be happy all the time? If you are single are you happy? If you share your life with someone, are you happy? I guess I am trying to figure out who's happy. I am in a good mood most of the time. I love people, like my job, love my family, and I find humor more often than not. But happy feelings come and go. I think it is impossible to be happy even most of the time. I think happiness is a feeling that comes around in waves and for the rest of the time, you just get by and do the best you can, right? Just random thinking...
Friday, October 06, 2006
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5 said...:
single and happy here...although I'm sure there's more happiness to be had and I'm searching for it every day.
gina
hi lil' ripper glad your feeling better and hope the knee is ok. im just learning to use this puter and no idea how to set up a blogg but im going to look into it.
It's the best line in a film ever...'There's a girl in my soup', Goldie Hawn and Peter Sellers have just spoofed the honeymoon suite in a Paris hotel and the bell boy knocks on the door with a bouquet of flowers compliments of the management, and says (in an outrageous French accent) to Goldie Hawn "we wish you a penis all your life". (It sounds like hapiness you see....oh never mind).
Life can be a drudge, dull and sometimes much worse, hapiness is a bonus.
Let me tell you somethin' about happiness cousin...
Happiness is something that most people are conditioned to strive for. Most of us never find it. Why? Because life is a struggle the entire way through.
This life of ours, and all the lives we live besides it, is a school house. We come here to experience physical sensation, to live in a limited, foggy world that we plotted out before we were born. We want to experience (I think) because we learn compassion and love by experiencing what we go through. Through pain, we learn love and forgiveness, etc.
It's much like plotting out a plan to look for treasure on the sea floor. Seems pretty easy, right? Then we gear up in a huge, heavy diver's suit and drop down into the water. Suddenly we're fighting the current and the sluggishness of the suit in the water and about ten minutes into it, we're exhausted as hell and ready to come back up to the surface!
Heaven's like that. The surface. This world is like the sea floor. It's a struggle the entire way. Some of the time, we're content, happy even when something good happens or whatever. But for the most part, it's hard as hell and exhausting.
Because of the experience, however, we would have never learned about what it's like and so would have never had that compassion we have for other divers who have been there. And where's the fun in that?
But that's just my opinion!
:)
Love ya!
Jas...
G: I think if you do search, you will always find it.
Alf: I can't wait till you get your blog up ... I will be your first blog groupie.
Fish: Sometimes the best advice comes from the best movies.
Jas: Very well said! This perspective is comforting.
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