CAN WE ALL HAVE HAPPINESS RIGHT WHERE WE ARE? - YES WE CAN AND HERE'S WHY

CAN WE ALL HAVE HAPPINESS RIGHT WHERE WE ARE? - YES WE CAN & HERE'S WHY

Happiness happiness, elusive happiness, how shall humanity attain happiness and contentment? So much has been said, researched and written about happiness and its pursuit.

We pause for a moment and ask ourselves is happiness really attained by pursuit? or can it be attained by relentlessly going after it like a predator pursues prey? The world is awash with examples to show there are no guarantees for success in that approach.

Happiness is actually available to all of us, every living being, how so? Happiness is first of all a state of mind and a conscious choice we make no matter the prevailing material circumstances because it comes from a higher level than just the physical and tangible.

Happiness must  ensue from us rather than be pursued as an external object because it will never be found stashed in some secretly located warehouse or hidden treasure trove, each day we wake up we have a choice whether to be happy or not, this notwithstanding the challenges,pressures and difficulties of life. It is a choice we must make daily. In fact we can choose to be happy as we go about finding solutions to the myriad of challenges in daily living, when we are in a happy state of mind our chances of finding these solutions are high because this state of mind unlocks our creativity and we see endless possibilities as opposed to dead ends and insurmountable challenges.

Happiness goes hand in hand with gratitude, in-fact it is the direct result of an attitude of gratitude on our part as human beings. There is always something to be grateful for in life even in the seemingly darkest of days when we look deep within ourselves and around ourselves consciously we can always without fail find something to be grateful for.

The first and greatest example is being alive, yes to appreciate that life is a gift not a given, from there we start identifying other things no matter how small, the natural beauties around us, a blooming flower, the golden sun beaming its morning rays on our face and hitting us the right way, the sweet singing of birds on the tree branches and so much more. When our mind is in a happy state even the tiniest morsel of food we appreciate and consume with joy because it will strengthen us and nourish our bodies.

When we begin with happiness from within, desires and dreams take new meaning and realising them comes in a new dynamic. With happiness already in us the things we desire become tools and means to better living conditions for us and our neighbour rather than outright ends to deliver happiness. So we no longer think "if only I could drive a Mercedes I would be happy", rather we appreciate that the Mercedes is an automobile of high engineering and design standards which makes for better living conditions compared to a cheaply designed car but we will still get from point A to point B all the same whether we have the Mercedes or the cheaper car any day and carry on with our business.

The sooner we realise that happiness has no direct link with possessions or rather the sooner we learn to dissociate possessions from happiness the better for humanity.

There is a sequence or formula for happy living often preached by sages of the east which is BE, DO & HAVE, yet most of us want to HAVE first then we think we can BE in order to DO. The second order is an exercise in futility because it is the pursuit of happiness we've already  discussed. First we ought to BE, that is bring our minds to consciously choose to be happy  even as we DO that which needs to be done in order to HAVE that which we desire but we are already happy people!

So with an emphatic YES!! We can all be happy right where we are!

THE GOLDEN WORD FOUNTAIN - (TGWF)