The Pursuit of Happiness

 

What is happiness? How does one achieve such a thing? Can happiness be bought or not? That rhymes. Ha. A huge part of happiness is humor. Smiling is associated with happiness. Being able to laugh, at yourself, at others, with others. Laughing is a worldwide phenomenon, everyone does it, babies, the hearing impaired, people with other cultures.

To be able to achieve happiness you need to let go. When you are truly happy you aren’t worrying, thinking about money or family problems, when you’re happy you let yourself focus on more positive things, like your health and how did you good on your math test.

“Happiness is only real when shared,” Jon Krakauer said. Happiness is something that is shared. When something amazing happens to you do you bottle it up? No, you want to tell someone, sometimes you want to tell the whole world, post it on Facebook. Look at me everyone, Jason just asked me to prom! Wow Syne, congratulations! Other people boost your happiness.

In some ways money really can help happiness. People winning the lottery never seem to be too upset about it. When you save up enough money to buy that beautiful prom dress you want, you can’t help but grin from ear to ear. Getting to visit other countries and go on adventures. It requires money, that’s just the world we live in.

Happiness can also be genetic. It’s in your DNA; some people are born happy. But that’s not the whole part of it; you also have the choice to be happy. You can choose how you react to bad times, like when Jason doesn’t reply to your messages or you get a stain on your prom dress. Just start messaging Mason and ditch prom and go to the Mall of America.

It can be tough sometimes, trying to be happy; sometimes you may feel like you’ll never find happiness again, but you can and will. And if you’re having struggles I grant you permission to come and talk to me, yes you, all three readers of Ahlahasa. You’re welcome.

Being part of the Ahlahasa makes me happy