It’s Tale Weaver over at the MindloveMisery’s Menagerie. Today we have been asked to write about happiness (of all things!).
Happiness, eh?
This is a topic I know very little about. Googling it doesn’t help.
I’ve heard of it, of course. Some people I know have actually experienced it: the real deal. They are happy people.
I scratch my head.
They say they are happy at ‘their core.’ “Why?” I asked them, and they look at me like I’m crazy. Then I wanted to ask where my core was located, but decided against it.
Maybe I don’t have one.
So, I don’t know. Happiness has eluded me thus far. Although when I was a little kid I was happy and experienced happiness on a regular basis. But then I became aware of the not so nice side of life and realized it wasn’t all about sunshine & lollipops: there were Necco wafers and liver & onions that would occasionally rain on my parade.
The older I get, it seems, the more it rains Necco wafers and liver.
Anyway! To me, happiness is similar to porn in that it’s hard to describe, but you know it when you see it.
I remember that wafer candy… I had too much unhappiness growing up so I sought the flip side as an adult. I believe I’ve succeeded. 🙂
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Congrats on your search for happiness. But how did you do it?
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I took all the things I didn’t like and promised myself to not do them. Like how I was ignored as a child… So I would listen to my own children better. That communication works better with talking than yelling and screaming (which the adults who I grew up with did – yell that is). Not make promises that I couldn’t keep. In general be mindful of others and accept limitations and differences.
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I will remember this. Thank you Jules. 🙂
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Everything can be a lesson – Best advice, listen, then and do what is best for you. 🙂
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