Happiness…

What is happiness? Happiness is different to every single individual, but no matter where you are in the world on what continent, what race you are,  you are most likely to be in pursuit of the same things, and how we react when we are happy is strangely similar.

Many sciences have studied this, since the ego is telling us from the first day we use our brain, that we are separate one of each other, we are different, we are individuals, and the strongest will win this race.

Like each race or sport event, this game that we are trained to participate even from a small age, have rules and are organized by someone.

But who is this brilliant mind that created this game? Who “owns” this sport?

They are doing a pretty damn job. You are born and even your parents have the belief that they are teaching you good, you should be able to do everything, be better than the neighbor, use your head, work hard, and after, work even harder.

Because you want to be the first. So you forget that you are a spiritual being having a human experience, you forget about love, because that is weakness, you sacrifice all your time in pursuing something that has no end, sex just becomes a thing you need from time to time, like food, you lose the appetite of life and you go for power.

Because power makes you feel important, better, your happiness is then based on the unhappiness of others, and they teach you to be a machine. To exclude your human side from your identity, and that you can walk on anyone who is standing in your way. Destroy nature and kill everything that stands between you and your prize. Like a trained dog, you will obey even if is going to take you to your own coffin.

And the sad thing is in not even your way. Is their way, they tell you what is happiness, they tell you what is power, they take the decision for you. Because you become this thing that just respond to impulses.

So how you see a mouse going to eat some cheese and dying in a trap. And that may seem pretty amusing to you, because you are this evolved smart being. The same thing they are doing to you. Because guess what, they are smarter.

They keep you busy until you die, create goals that may take a life time or 2, big house, expensive cars, expensive everything. And if you can afford them, they will just create more expensive things to keep you busy, so you don’t question the system and you are comfortable in this life they created for you, or they hold you responsible for it. And happiness becomes something related to consumerism, how much you accumulate, how much do you have, the false illusion that without a Ferrari, a very expensive bag, and new shoes, your happiness is just impossible.

Like a hamster in a cage, with good food, some devices so he can be in shape, a partner, some small babies..:) And the more effort you put on your rolling wheel, the bigger the cage gets, better food, a softer bed. Until one day, you die, without even knowing that there is a forest out there, fields with sun, all kind of seeds and soft grass, soft mud to dig in, and all kind of marvelous things.

So what happened? Where did your life gone wrong? Well you’ll have the chance to see it before you die, and come to this conclusion alone.

What if your whole life was wrong? Just because you didn’t pay any attention to the present. Your pursuit for happiness was always postponed in a future, or you felt like, you will never experience the intensity of what you had in the past.

So your present has either become regret or work towards something that TV, newspaper, radio, society, schools, entourage tells you is happiness.

How much time a day do you spend contemplating, what is happiness to you? What do you think you need from life, what makes you feel complete.

My teacher used to said that we spend so much time, creating a hard time for us, making us unhappy, but when the times come to be happy… we just wait for it, to fall from the sky.

I was just reading an article about the 2 wealthiest families in the world. They are trying to reduce the minimum wage of their employments salary, their benefits medical etc so they can have more. And the ego the word enough, doesn’t exists. There is only one way, and that way is more…

If you cannot be happy with what you are already having, you will never be happy with having more. Work on your perception on how you see things, be more loving, be more human, do errors and return to your child side. Appreciate what you are having, be grateful for your health, for the people around you, for the society you were born and stop complaining. There is always worse than the situation that you are now, so if you are not able to find for what to be grateful, just be grateful that things don’t go more wrong.

If you don’t believe that, keep your dissatisfy attitude, and you will see that each day can be worse than the previous.

Keep the chin up and a positive attitude, work towards something more fulfilling, build your compassion, and understanding, do yoga, read a book and tell me the difference.