Happiness

Happiness.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about this word. Happiness. What is it? What does it mean? Is it real?

Happiness.

Do people even search for happiness nowadays? Do they take it for granted? Or do they think it’s a myth and it’s not real?

When I was a kid I was probably the happiest person in my family. I was always smiling and playing and being me. I always loved everyone and I loved to be liked by everyone. I loved my dreams and was pretty happy about having dreams. I felt smart and friendly and… Well, happy!

Being a teen, I still feel happy. Not like the happiest person in my family. Not in the same way I was when I was a kid. But still happy. I screw up often; I get mad pretty often; I am often insensitive. I sometimes let myself down and other people too. But in the end of the day I think about everything in my life and I feel happy. I’m an optimistic person. I’m a dreamer.  And I believe this is the right way to think and to live.

 But not everyone thinks the way I do.

I’m thinking about a grown up person I know. A close person.

That person lives a sad life. Not because life itself is sad but because that person doesn’t seek for happiness. That person settles and doesn’t wander through the world (whether it is a physical world or a psychological one). That person has people who love her, but it seems she only thinks about how many people don’t love her. Instead of thinking how many friends she has, she thinks about how many she doesn’t have.

The glass is never half full to her! It’s always half empty.

And all of this goes back to the age subject. Grownups think they’re older than they actually are. Why is that? Why do you think that way? There’s so much life for everyone. One single day of life it’s an eternity; one single hour of life it’s a lifetime! Don’t settle for the end of your life. There’s always so much more! It’s never too late.

It’s never too late to live.

It’s never too late for happiness.

Happiness!

One can’t live without it. But not everyone knows how to live with it.

Let’s all learn to be happy and optimistic and friendly and a person with life. Let’s make everyone around us happy because that’s the best step there is towards happiness itself. Let’s compliment and help and be a friend to someone.

Let’s be to others what we want others to be with us!

And let’s wander throughout the world, please! Let’s live life to the fullest so we can be as happy as it’s humanely possible and let’s do it with a genuine smile on our faces!

Grownups: please, don’t give up on your lives because that makes the rest of us sad.

Teens: don’t lose hope and don’t forget what you were like a few years ago.

Kids: just keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll be fine.

And everyone: just go back to be the kid you once were and do it with a smile on your face.

I am happy for you.