Sunday, July 08, 2007
The Pursuit of...?I woke up yesterday with one of the best moods ever. It was as if that good ol' Christmas Spirit suddenly had a major malfunction with its calendar and ended up sprinkling good ol' Christmas Cheer on me as soon as I had gotten up. It was like being seven years old and waking up to Christmas Morning. Maybe it was the psychological mindset that told me "Hey! It's 7/7/7! This day will not happen for another 100 years at least! Celebrate it! It's going to be awesome!" Maybe it was because so many good things have been happening to me and to people around me that it just hit me how wonderfully surreal things have been (despite the evil, looming cliche 'what comes up, must come down,' as indicated in my previous entry). Anyway, whatever it was, I woke up and started the day on a high and went about the rest of the day with that same attitude.
Somewhere down the middle, I thought, "Why don't days like this happen as often as they should?" When you think about it, when you REALLY think about it, nothing too special happened yesterday (Well, except for the fact that it was one of my bestfriends' birthday). I thought, "Wouldn't it be amazing if I could wake up this way every single day?" There's a very small possibility that COULD happen. It's all about perspective. Happiness isn't just about the externalities and outside factors that affect you, happiness also has to stem from within. Those external factors, those things, places, people, events, there will always be some of them out there. There will always still be some clear water under the oil-drowned surface of an oil-spilled body of water. But if, like a stubborn little brat is to a clown desperately trying to make him/her laugh, we DO NOT let these things inside of us, happiness will never come. We have to allow ourselves to be happy. We have to think happy before we feel happy.
We work so damn hard just to be happy. We do so many things, we hurt, we suffer, we cry just to become happy. Yes, while that is noble, and while that is what life is all about (its essence, if you will), we shouldn't forget that some forms of happiness aren't that hard to obtain.
We shouldn't forget that while happiness is the ultimate goal in our lives, it, in itself, is the means to get there. We should be happy while looking for that which makes us happy. Yesterday, all I did was wake up and I was happy. Wouldn't it be great if that was there is to it? You sleep, you wake up, you're happy.
The mood's over now. Everything's back to normal. Santa Clause must be kicking the Christmas Spirit's behind for doing what it did yesterday. The Live Earth concerts (check them out on MSN) are probably over by now. I feel fine. I feel normal. But most of all, I feel happy that I felt as happy as I did yesterday.
the adventure ended at 12:56 PM
