Happiness: It’s Hard To Define
Happiness means that you are satisfied with your life and the people and things that make up your life. You can put your head down at night knowing you are living the best life you can be. Happiness means being surrounded by loving family and friends and being able to love yourself. You could have everything in the world but if you don't have your family or friends in your life, happiness is near to impossible. You need someone to share all the amazing moments with, to spread love, and receive that love in return. Yes, happiness is perceived differently by each person but at the end of the day, we are just trying to find the same thing. It is hard to define human happiness for the sources of it were different.
Many says that I'm the type of person who is always happy, the person who doesn't have anything to worry about but in the reality, behind those smiles, behind those happiness is the sad reality, the problems that I don't know how can I escape? Whenever I see the happy faces of the person I love, I feel a little relief. As I throw jokes with others, I know that I giving them joy, even though I, myself don't know what happiness really means. I'm that kind of person who is appreciative. I valued even the smallest things, because it gives me the joy. As a human, I also get hurt, I am not a robot anyway, but then I learn to stand, I learned that not everybody is capable of making me smile. A smile is the key to happiness, as what I always do but at the end of the day I know that happiness is always a choice, I just have to learn how to choose.
Smile is only word, five letters but have great significance, why? Because when you smile you can make other people happy, when you smile you can transfer the positivity and you can help yourself to think that everything will be alright. I remind everyone that we should smile all the time and smiling can really make someone’s day. Smiling is just for free, you don’t have to buy it. Instead you can give it to someone who deserved your smile. Your smile says a great deal about you. It really is true. Not convinced? Try this. Try to think of some of the people you’re attracted to. Done? How many of those were actually smiling? Well, you don’t have to tell me because I already know the answer.
We are naturally hardwired to be attracted to people who smile. Something about seeing someone smile builds up all this positive energy in our minds. And every time we see them, we associate them with all that positive energy. Now this is as true as it is strange. Smiling actually makes you, the person smiling, happier regardless of the situation. Normally we are hardwired to smile only during pleasant situations. But sometimes we smile to only hide what we truly feel inside our heart. There’s many people pretend that they are happy but deep inside they are sad. I think we need to pretend that we are happy to see other that you are a strong person. But, sometimes it’s hard to pretend.
One reason why people hide their grief or anger is that these are valued as weakness of a person. But it is a fallacy or myth and one needs to unmask and show the real side to people whom they can confide to, since anyone who cannot be relied on could make merry out of someone’s worry. Hence, the defensive mechanism for a while helps, and thereafter the heart has to find a heart to pour out such hidden bitter and niggling.
You don't have to act happy all the time especially when your heart is bleeding just to tell them your strong, your courageous enough to face all the obstacles that always tries to block your way. Why? Time will come and it will be hard to the point that you will have any choice but to give up. On this case, everyone should have a crying shoulder, but how can you have one if everyone thinks that you can passed through it because you’re brave.
It is not wrong to hide the pain with your fake smiles, what was wrong is that you never let anyone come into your life to stay with you on the hardest moments life gives. Learn to cry, learn to shout out into this cruel world.
