WHAT IS HAPPINESS FOR ME?
I think happiness is a non-static state, which at each stage of our life offers us a different point of view according to our needs. Until relatively recently, for me to be happy mean to succeed professionally, to be recognized and to fulfill my expectations, which then turned out not to be so much mine, but of the rest of the people I cared about, whom I thought I had to please somehow. I later realized that, despite having achieved these goals, I was not happy. Then I started to wonder what was going on. And if I hadn't found happiness there, where could it be? What was it? After a long time of sadness, I decided to break away from everything and start observing. Then I felt that I was not alone, that my people were still with me even if I showed no signs of life. And that made me happy. Later I realized that for me, happiness was found in the human and not in the material. Waking up in the morning with the light of a bright day coming through the window; in my cats saying me "meeeeow, human, give me food"!; in a storm in front of a wood fire and under a warm blanket; in a sincere embrace and in a "good morning, how are you today"?. Happiness is also in eating something delicious, closing your eyes and feeling all the textures and flavors, one after the other, on the palate. In breathing deeply in a forest and feeling the clean air and the smell of nature; in being able to say "I love you" without having to wait for an answer; in knowing that I am not alone even though there is no one around that day!
But above all, for me, happiness is having learned to listen to myself and feeling that the only approval I need to be who I am is my own.
Lots of love!!!
Thank you, @missy @rambo @eirenne
