“I just want to be happy.”
I hear it over and over again, often whimpered, as if happiness searches some people out and not others, or, as if it is some sort of award that may descend upon a person who is in the right place at the right time. It’s uttered as if happiness is being doled to some and not to others.
Happiness has no victims.
You have more chance of being struck by lightning than you have being struck by happiness.
Happiness is a by-product, not a goal.
It grows, emerges, unravels, out of purposeful living.
Happiness is out of the control of the rich and powerful. That is surely obvious. You may have noticed its penchant for playing hide and seek with the rich and powerful.
It’s yours when you fight and win the good fight over trying to be happy.
It’s yours when you engage purposes greater than yourself, your pleasures, and appetites.
The road to happiness is often paved with difficulty and things you may think will never deliver any joy.
It hides from the lazy, the self-indulgent, the entitled, the spoiled, the whiner. It tends to embrace those seeking justice and authenticity and doing what is good and right by others.
Ironically happiness often escapes the rich and arrogant, but makes its home with the poor, the humble, and the rich and humble. Oddly, it’s one thing that doesn’t, “follow the money.”
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