30 Happy Things
List 30 things that make you happy.
If we look at happiness as something that should be constant and ever present, then it would be correct to be of the opinion that happiness doesn’t depend on haves and have nots.
Unfortunately, happiness ebbs and flows just like every other human states of consciousness, so it is perfectly possible that happiness can and does depend on people and things that we have or don’t have.
Modern life tries to sell us the fiction that happiness is self-generated and sustained by the individual alone and this is faulty because as individuals, we don’t exist in a void. We exist in relationship to people and things.
Happiness seems to always have a source from where it comes. Sometimes, we generate it from the state of total wellness. Sometimes, we experience it as a contagium from foci outside of ourselves.
It’s therefore safe to say that the magnitude of happiness that we experience can be traceable to who and what we surround ourselves with. However, the greater challenge remains the ability to determine when happiness is enough.
When is it enough for an individual to stop digging inwardly for more sources of happiness? When is it enough to stop seeking the outward sources of happiness? When is the right time to stop holding onto or stop chasing the high of happiness? Nobody knows. Nobody knows!
Perhaps the individual needs to marry happiness to honesty infinitely. This is one good way to remain intent and content with our relationship with the concept of happiness.
Now, are there things that make me happy? Yes. Wellness makes me happy. Are there people who contribute to my happiness? Oh, a lot of people!
But the most important thing for me is that the things that bring me happiness do not hold me captive, and that I don’t turn the people who bring me happiness into captives who must labor for my happiness at all times.
Happiness is worth it. To receive happiness and to be a source of someone else’s happiness is an encouraged experience.
The progressive mind must come to terms with the fact that happiness is not the default state of existence like we’ve been conditioned to think, and no affect needs to be a preferred state of existence.
Welcome happiness when it shows up, release it when it goes.
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