I believe that everyone deserves the happiness that all the world can contain. This world is really large, so it can definitely contain all the happiness that we all need to fill everyday of our lives. However, it amazes me how little people believe that of themselves today. It seems a strange statement but we see it all around us today..We postpone our happiness, we overwork today to enjoy tomorrow, postpone that holiday, scrimp and save up for that wedding, forfeit precious time for earthly treasures. Please do not get me wrong; I am not in any way implying that work is bad, or that we should spend like there is no tomorrow. I totally believe in having a wholesome work attitude as well as saving for a comfortable retirement and a financially secured future. (I have a whole career to prove it *chuckle *)
However, I am proposing in this post, (that is all is it- a proposal, you are not required to agree with it, but however urged to consider it) that most of us don’t really believe that we deserve to be truly happy. I’m not saying we don’t want to be, fact is we want to be, we have spent the last few millenniums searching for the ‘secret to happiness’- We just don’t really believe that we deserve to be happy.
We have been bombarded by family, culture, society from childhood to adolescence and then adulthood to believe that suffering is noble, and happiness is something vague that belongs the mediocre. It has been subtle, we may talk like we know that happiness is truly important, but we always live what we believe. And along with the children that we’re supposed to teach and the young people we’ve been tasked to nurture, I look around to find a society where a overworked lifestyle is secretly admired, rest is looked upon with a little guilt, where you have to ‘earned’ your right to having a good time and busyness is only inches away from being crowned.
May I suggest that you consider the world- the wonder of creation, the beauty of individuality, and the exhilarating thrill of living life; from the moment you entered this world, you have a right- Happiness. You don’t have to earn it, you deserve i
2 comments:
i was looking up for your latest post (since this one is like 2 weeks old) and couldnt find any... too busy with your happiness? Honestly ni, when happiness is before you, will you be able to identify?
haha... now i understand why others commented that your blogs are like GP essays...=p
Can't find any newer blog entries, but still.. my 2 cents worth.
I can't agree less that everyone deserves to be happy, just that the world and society complicates and distorts the true meaning of happiness. And the hunger for more and pressures and pace of this society of ours often cause us to miss the happiness that is just before us. Simplicity is blissed... happiness should never be gauged/ weighed by how much you have or do not have, but happiness is, being able to live life to the fullest with what you have at hand, enjoying every moment with the people you love.
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