Happiness
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Happiness is just outside my window
Would it crash blowing 80-miles an hour?
Or is happiness a little more like knocking
On your door, and you just let it in?
Happiness feels a lot like sorrow
Let it be, you can’t make it come or go
But you are gone- not for good but for now
Gone for now feels a lot like gone for good
Happiness is a firecracker sitting on my headboard
Happiness was never mine to hold
Careful child, light the fuse and get away
Cause happiness throws a shower of sparks
Happiness damn near destroys you
Breaks your faith to pieces on the floor
So you tell yourself, that’s probably enough for now
Happiness has a violent roar
Happiness is like the old man told me
Look for it, but you’ll never find it all
But let it go, live your life and leave it
Then one day, wake up and she’ll be home
Home, home, home
- Happiness, The Fray
Someone once told me:
Happiness is based on circumstances, contentment is eternal. Happiness is unpredictable. Chase after it and it destroys you as you will be chasing after things that will only be temporarily filling the emptiness inside you. You aren’t chasing eternal joy. You’re chasing something that will forever change as it will never satisfy you long enough.
In this song, it says that “Happiness feels a lot like sorrow. Let it be, you can’t make it come or go“. Sorrow comes without warning. No one goes looking for it and yet it comes. It is a very sad thing to experience but nevertheless it still comes unbidden.
Happiness works like this to a certain extent. Try and try as you may, it is insanely hard to find true happiness. It comes when it comes, not when you’re actively searching for it. Think for a moment. When one is sad and depress, that person would be more likely to search frantically for a way to get out of it. Happiness that is found in this way is just cheap thrills and only lasts temporarily.
True happiness is like falling in love, or being with someone you truly love or an unexpected good news. It is because that we aren’t actively searching for it, it comes to you. We should just live life to the fullest and not worry about whether we can find happiness for it is random. It will come to you when you least expect it.
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