OK happy post time. I don't know what i will write about but with Buddha as my witness this will be a happy post! Lets see, i could talk about the weather... Nope its raining. I could talk about how my room is clean... but that would be lying. I know! I'll write about happiness in general! I mean that fits into something happy right?
So what is happiness? Well according to the first Google definition it is and i quote "a state of well being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy". I actually have a problem with this definition. I mean happiness here only goes to intense joy? What about ecstasy? And i know that is often considered the name of a drug, but it started out as a feeling, or how about elated? Joy seems to me to be kind of a soft word choice, but that really is besides the point. I am modifying it to be from contentment to total ecstasy OK? Well as i don't work for any sort of major company and have to appeal to various people to make sure i don't offend anybody. Though technically people vote with how often they read, but still right now the only vote that counts is mine. And i like it, so the basic definition i will be using for happiness from here on out will be and i quote "Happiness is a state in which a person feels good about themselves emotionally".
Well i hope that shocked you, though if it didn't you just must be getting to know me kinda well... Anywho that is what happiness is to me. You like yourself. Cause if you like who you are, you tend to be doing ok and are generally considered happy. You can be pissed off at your boss, your friends, your family, but if you genuinely like who you are i am willing to bet you get over it. Meanwhile if you actually are pissed off at who you are because your too fat, your boobs are too small, your muscles are too weak, or any other reason (even if it is that you don't like how you aren't good enough at something yet) i would also be willing to bet that you have friction with other people, and that friction will end up resulting in problems. Bigger problems than you think.
Just like your personal life will spill over into your proffessional life and vice versa so will if your content with who you are and who you are not.
And now for the Zen perspective (Look, i used the word now there and am about to use it again). Now. This moment, right here right now to quote Fatboy Slim is what it is all about. To use another quote which came from Kung Fu Panda "The past is history, the future a myster, but right now is a gift, thats whay it is called a present". I'm gonna continue the quoting streak and this time go to the best character in the Lion King with the line "it doesn't matter, its in the past, you can either learn from it, or run from it". Thats the key.
That is about it, learn from it, move on, and accpet that now exists as now, the future is mostly out of your hands, the past is done, so move on. If you can't be happy with who you are right here right now then you are probably not going to be happy. That time, right here, right now, is all that matters. Tomorrow never gets here because when it does it is already today. Yesterday is done, you can't ever go back to it. You are stuck with right here right now. But in this moment you choose what to do. If you can be in this moment, look at yourself and accept it, do you think you will be happy? I do. I am.
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