Last night, I read something that was very powerful and I want to share it with you guys. Obviously, you can tell from the title it has to do with HAPPINESS. Why in the world would I want to share ideas about happiness with you?

Here’s why! I just don’t see a lot of happy people around anymore. I see people multitasking and not really taking any pleasure in any of the tasks. I see people eating, drinking, talking on the telephone, putting on makeup, and combing their hair and do it all while driving in their cars. I see unhappy people on shopping malls, restaurants, bars, dancing clubs, even inside the school, shuttle, library, in lab, lecture classes. The thing is, people are not normally ‘get things as it is’, they want more, they need the attraction from everybody.

When it comes to happiness I’m still a work in progress. I want to share this idea with you in the hope that it may in some small way give you something to think about. It sure got me thinking! What one misses most today is the evidence of widespread personal determination to develop a character that will in itself, given any reasonable odds, make for happiness. Our whole emphasis is on the reform of living conditions, of increased wages, of controls on economic structure, more, more and more

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience. Selfishness is its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy oneself. It is quiet, seldom found for long in crowds, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It cannot be bought; indeed money has very little to do with it.

“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy… to study hard, think
quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to
babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely,
await occasions, hurry never; in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and
unconscious, grow up through the common.” — by William Ellery Channing

Enjoy yourself, tell me what you think.