Life of Beatitudes: A Call For The Youth Life is unexplainable, sometimes you get what you least favored of and you don’t get what you really want. Sometimes you ask to slow down time in times you enjoy most, and sometimes you ask to fast forward it especially if you are waiting for something or someone or if you are in pain because you believe that everyday there’s hope as long as you see sunrise, you think that it brings a better today and tomorrow. What do you think is the true essence of life? Politicians say it is where they help people, teacher says it when they see their students learn, doctor and other people on the medical field says it is when they see their patients recovered or healed, lawyer says, it when they were able to save their clients, parents say it is when they see their children grow in to something they are praying and hoping for, like finishing college and have a stable job or own a family, but despite of achieving these things, people are still unhappy. So, how do you really achieve happiness? For me, being happy and contented have a huge difference, some says for you to achieve the former you should have the latter. But wait, things are getting complicated, let’s define both first; Happiness means being satisfied with everything you have, the people that surrounds you, your friends and colleagues, the things that you have, all material things that only money can buy, the place that you dwell, the places you’ve been to, your achievements, able to connect to internet anytime, able to buy food that you like, able to party, able to dress fabulously and so on and so forth, while on the other hand, CONTENTMENT is still being happy even without those things mentioned above. Sometimes you are contented having a cup of coffee with 2 sticks of your favorite cigar, getting sober even with the cheapest wine with friends and share stories and laugh, able to sleep in a place where your relatives and love ones even it’s hot, climbing a mountain with your friends even it’s tiring, swimming in a not very fancy resorts, able to wear comfortable shirt and from time to time able to connect to internet and from time to time able to eat things you wish you have right away without waiting. Happiness is the feeling of having material things in general, passing-joy, while contentment is being happy even without those things, but what am I trying to point out? I am trying to point out the feeling of despite having everything is still unhappy. How do you achieve true happiness? I guess, true happiness comes from within, true happiness is enjoying the time even alone doing nothing by just listening to your favorite songs, and happiness is able to influence other people to be happy, too. Happiness is remembering people that once help you in your life. Happiness is reminiscing your past without bitterness. Happiness is not comparing, happiness is not wining. Happiness is able to sleep at night without worrying anything. Happiness is enjoying even the smallest and simplest life can give. It is giving thanks to everything you have and patiently waiting for your dreams to come. Happiness is able to walk, happiness is able to see, feel , hear and taste. Happiness is dancing under the rain , happiness is able to help people that believes in you. Happiness is not avoiding someone you had fight before. Happiness is forgiving and happiness is contagious. Lucky those people who achieved true happiness, but wait, who are those? Are they the wealthiest men, are they the people who own millions in the bank, are those people who always go out of town, are those people who has the biggest house and has luxury cars? Eh, I don’t think so. Happiness is in your mind. You control your own happiness. Happiness is you. Yes, no one else. Happiness is being alive and experiencing everything. Life is happiness. #homilynipadi #justmytwocents
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:35:08 +0000
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