The Myth About Happiness - Part 2

I'm so glad to learn a few more interesting things these days that I can't help sharing with you all! Here we go!


Happiness is always defined subjectively, isn't it? I've been investing time and effort to understand it, because to me, it's the ultimate purpose that we're living for.
However, I still couldn't define it concretely. And I don't want to do it anyways, for a simple reason: it's subjective. Just think of how your ideas about happiness have been changed over time, since you were a little kid until now?

I remember an African woman said "Having clean water here is development, is happiness to us" on BBC's Planet Earth.

In Vietnam, very often on TV you can find some children define "happiness" as being able to go to school.

When I heard them saying so, it was really painful! They are living under the means, hence their definition of "happiness" is utterly simple. If happiness were just that simple, most of us who have more than basic means to survive should be already madly happy. Why aren't we?

Few months ago, I watched a video from Anthony Robbins. He saids "feeling is actually what we're all after". Do you love being kissed by your husband/wife (or boyfriend/girlfriend for those who haven't married)? I know you do hehe. Okie, would you still feel the same enjoyment if some stranger on the street kissed you exactly the way your "significant other" would? It's the feeling when you're kissed, not the kiss itself that you're after, isn't it?

I was really excited when listening to Anthony. It helps me to explain soooooo many things that are happening around, running people's life.

However, my question is: what is that ultimate feeling that we desire? I would say "happiness". Do you want to do something or be with someone that makes you unhappy? Yeah, in the end, it's always "happiness" that we pursuit. Whether you're conscious about this or not, it's the reason behind all our thoughts, all our actions.

So what's so great about this? Certainly it's such a precious information to me! It made me sleepless a few nights, thinking of how to live a happy life and how to help others live a happy life at the same time.

Yes, we're all chasing "happiness", every single second in our life. However, many of us haven't known or have forgotten this real reason. They end up trying to catch the reflection of the moon on the water, thinking it's the real moon. That's why they can never catch it. That's why they're never satisfied. And that’s what I mean by “having the happiness attached to other things and other people" in my previous post.

Since happiness is what we're after, and happiness is a feeling, my question for all of us is: who creates your feeling? Aren't you the one? Are you happy right now? If you're, congratulations! If not, why?...

For your happiness
Ruby :) :) :)