Happiness is a state of mind

The essence of philosophy is that man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. -Epictetus

Last day of the working week. Strange. Normally on the ship we work everyday, all the weekends. Now I have weekends of, wow! What can I do in Freetown on weekends? Here we have change to visit local communities, local churches, women prisons and many other local institutes, all this is organized by the ship staff. We have several cars we can use so we are able to drive around and do things. Pretty great!

Today it’s been raining almost whole day but we still managed to do some paining and chipping. We washed our decks and we managed to close few other projects, it has been a really good day.

Yesterday I was listening women who works on the shore side trying convert African people to Christian. They are organizing meetings around the country for locals to hear the God words and trying to get them join. I just wonder what does it matter who is your God and what do you believe. I would think it would be more important to focus on working together and help others. How we know whose God is the real one? I would think that everybody thinks that their God is the right one. Can you change your God if you don't like the God you have? Does he go mad if you do that?
Another thing which came in my head was the idea that if you worship the God you will get to the paradise. Mmm, so people will do all what God said just to get to the paradise? So they are working to get something, they are working for themselves, for the reward. Is that selfish? Are all these people working here to help others because they feel that is right way to do or are they doing it because there is a reward?

These are just thoughts. I am not judging anyone, ever, but I do like to think what makes people do what they do.

For me one part of my happiness is to let people are what they are and not trying to change them or judge them. I don’t want to waist my time of something which doesn’t really matter.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.  

I know most of the people are in pure heart, sincere, just helping people without any expectations to get anything back.

Few days ago, this ship made history. We had local people here on the ship doing fundraising and we raised over 30000 dollars to help local people. So the rich helped the poor. It is a big step!! Amazing!!

This is for now.

Happy people live longer….