Are you happy?!

Few weeks ago a friend of mine and I were chilling, and all of the sudden my friend asked me if I was happy, I had to think about it actually, I never realized that it could be a hard question to answer, for few moments, I was asking myself over and over again if I was really happy, and then I though to myself that I owe my friend an answer so I said to her “ I guess so” I know it wasn’t convincing but I couldn’t really say more than that, and then I asked her the same question, she gave me the same answer. It made me think about it, and I kept asking myself what is the real meaning of happiness, the more I thought about it the more I realized that happiness really doesn’t exists, happiness is actually a state of mind. What I mean is that when we buy something that we really want, we become so happy to have that something but then again as time passes by the thing that made us happy doesn’t matter anymore, because its there. Even when people win the lottery they think that they will be happy, yes they will, but as time passes and as their responsibilities becomes more and more this happiness fades away.

As a child I use to love Lady Diana, in fact she was my ideal. She was just perfect, but for some reason she wasn’t happy, she had it all, beauty, money, and power, she was the people’s princess but never happy, she made other people happy but not herself. I have so many examples that happiness is not something that we can find, its something that we feel when something new and exciting happens but its for a short period of time. The big thing about happiness is that even though it’s not true it keeps us going and hoping that we will find it some day. To be happy we have to always look for a new challenge because that’s what is going to make us alive and I guess happy.

Remember happiness is a way of travel not a destination....