According to dictionary.com happiness is 'the quality or state of being happy', but what does this mean? How do we know if we have complete happiness? Is it when we laugh, when we smile or are simply feeling content? When we love, when we know things are going well? If we are brutally honest with ourselves, are we honestly happy right now. Even if you have everything you could dare wish for, would you truly be happy?
I have to admit, I don't know if I'm happy. Sometimes I feel like the world around me is perfect, like nothing bad could happen and this is the only place I could be. The only place that is right and yes, I feel good! But then other times, I know I have more than most, yet I still have this feeling that I'm not completely happy, a nagging feeling. I guess this means happiness cannot be done on material possessions.
So what does it mean? Is happiness judged by the people around you? Your friends, your family the people you love. Those people you feel you couldn't live without, those people that would do anything for you and you would do the same in return. The people that when you're with them, no one else matters. Those are special people. Do those people ensure happiness? And what about those not so lucky to have them? Does this mean they cannot know happiness?
You would like to think not. You would like to think that everyone has the power to experience happiness, even if it is for one moment, to be completely absorbed in all that's good. But then what can bring you happiness? It can't be comfort, those starving children in Africa, they can surely be happy for one moment, through all the pain and the toughness, surely they can smile, surely something can make them happy.
Maybe it's just life, maybe having the privilege to experience mortality and to see the Earth. Nothing else is shared, nothing else is the same in every life, so that has to be what makes people happy, simply life. Unless every one's view of happiness is difference, in that case, happiness is well, everything!
