Tuesday, June 08, 2004
The only way to live life is to live it for the moment. I’m not suggesting we throw all thoughts of the future to the wind and absolve ourselves of all responsibilities etc etc…what i realize is that there is very little in life that is permanent and concrete, that anyone of us can hold on to with confidence.
Happiness is so very ephemeral and so very transient and yet, who among us does not wish to be happy? Happiness is, unless one is very lucky and very strong, basically
not an independent variable. I think i might have said this somewhere before..the fact is a very large part of a person’s happiness depends on the people around him, the stuff he does, wadever. The point is, in a perfectly ideal world it would be possible for happiness to come from solely within, with the result being a wonderful world full of
shiny happy people but in the world I know, that’s not happening.
Basically, my point is that there’s no use
trying to be happy or
searching for happiness. Happiness isn’t a big thing, it’s small and subtle, and it springs up on you when you least expect it.
And when it does, when you find yourself looking down at your life thinking
i’m happy…this is all i want and all i’ll ever need then live for that moment, live it fully and completely and take in as much of it as you can. But perfect bliss is not meant to last, there’s only so long a person can hang on to a moment. So let it fade out as easily and as quickly as it came in, and at the very least the memory will be there to preserve you.
The whole concept of having one’s breath taken away by a sudden and unexpected beauty would fall to pieces if that beauty were so common and so constant that one is left in a permanent state of breathlessness.
The more I live, the more I know...
What's simple is true...I love you
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