What is happiness?

“Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of travelling” –Margaret Lee Runbeck

I am happy or am I?

I have found happiness but can I be sure that I am really happy?

Is happiness my ultimate GOAL?  

What is happiness and what I get from it?

There is no perfect life and there is no life without sadness or problems. Happiness is strength to overcome all the challenges on our way. Happiness is not a destination, is a way of travelling and to found happiness we just have to look inside us. The happiness is in us. What ever country or society we live in, we all have the same desire: to become happy.

So yes, happiness is my goal. My ultimate goal!

Buddhists believes that happiness is the ultimate freedom from suffering…I like that and I think it is true. Basic human being is to be happy, when all the bad thoughts are taken away only thing left is happiness.

Happiness is the present moment, is neither the past nor the future. Happiness is now. We can’t think that we would be happy when we get married or when we get the job we have always wanted. That is not happiness. Happiness is in that moment we are living right now, it is the way we choose to live. We make our decisions according to our happiness and the out come is the result of our state of mind.

I choose to be happy.

Happiness brings me joy, it brings me pleasure.

“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholehearted, one directionally, without regret or reservation”. –William H. Sheldon

I had amazing weekend and it wasn’t great because amazing things happened, it was great because of my happiness. I am in the poorest part of the world and there are not so many things to do but still I enjoy every minute and every second while I am here. I find joy from small things. I find energy from people which bring me happiness.

Simple things make us happy. I had a quite routine work week, no big drama or great challenges, just work. On Friday I organized our department to get together and we went to the beach. Some of our local workers have never been on that beach!! They have lived their whole lives here but they have never gone to these gorgeous beaches!! Amazing!! So they really appreciated that day and it made them happy!! Such a small thing!

On Saturday I visited the Chimpanzees sanctuary which was really cool and in the afternoon we made few dives. It was extreme diving because the current was so STRONG!!! I got drift away so many times and we got separated few times but I did enjoy it. It was a good day.

On Sunday we just had lunch in a really nice beach restaurant with few friends.

It was a great weekend.  A beach, good company and nice food! Perfect.

Happiness is about small things.

“Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think” –Wayne Dyer

HAPPINESS AND FAITH

“Happiness is a spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude” –Denis Wailey

Time here in Africa is a journey to me and while travelling in this path of happiness different feelings and emotions goes through my mind everyday. One huge thing is my faith. What to believe?

Is there a God?

If there is a God, where he came from?

What is heaven?

What is the purpose of life?

Is there absolute truth?

All these questions go around my head all the time.
This is really emotional time for me.

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and the end of human existence” -Aristotle

I have googled some of these questions and when I googled “what is heaven” I got interesting answers. One of them was that there was a war in heaven. (Rev. 12:7) and there was violence in the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 11:12). Argument was: do we really want to go in the place like that?

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My point is that people just see what they want to see. Faith is like being in love. Love is blind so is faith. People see the God as they want to see, like they do with their faith. People believe what they want to believe.

So what is my faith?

I believe that we all have our own God which guides us on our journey. Why but a name for it? I feel closer to Buddhism than Christianity and I feel that my journey might take me to Tibet to search for ultimate happiness. I have been fascinated by Dalai Lama and Gandhi. I have been reading about them and studying their thoughts. I find them interesting. I am curios to see if I could be happier. The time will tell if I will end up someday searching for happiness in places like Tibet. Maybe…J

Life is an adventure and that makes it amazing.

It is good to be alive!!