Friday, November 27, 2009 - 4:28 PM
Happy.
Beautiful flowers don’t live for long. Beautiful scenery doesn’t stay around for long. Sometimes happiness is such a fleeting thing. Like a shooting star across the sky. You’re so happy you saw it. So ecstatic. You scream with excitement. But it flashed past so fast, you wonder whether you really saw it. Or was it just a figment of your imagination?
But the more fleeting it is, the more we want to hold on to it. We desperately think of ways to grab on to it. And when we can’t manage to hold on to it, we invent our own forms of happiness. Distractions. To forget our failure of finding what we are looking for.
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Close your eyes and stare into the dark.
That’s what I do when I can’t fall asleep.
Stare into the immeasurable blackness that stretches far beyond my closed eyelids.
But I know that behind that gauzed screen of my shut eyes, lies a world of colour. Taunts me. Dares me to open my eyes. And I lose sleep.
Squeeze your eyelids tighter together. Block out these grains of light. Mere distractions that keep you awake. But are signs that there is life beyond that darkness.
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Happiness comes in all forms. We don’t go looking for it. It looks for us. But so often we’ve already formed our stereotype of how we want our happiness to look like. That when it passes us by, we don’t even realize it has. It’s like concentrating and staring hard at the part of the sky where we think the shooting star is going to flash across. And we miss it passing straight across the other corner. No. We’ve got to step back and unfocus our eyes. Look at the entire sky.
It’s fleeting. But it definitely exists. We can only relish the momentary light and comfort it provides. Still, it’s not all darkness.
Just remember the big picture.
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