Where do you find happiness?
Right now I am going through a transitional period. As such, I am also going through the obligatory soul searching, meaning-of-life angst. So, I'm sitting here wondering, "Where does happiness lie?"
Is it external? In the things and/or people around you? Or is it more internal? In achieving a zen-like oneness with the universe? Is it all a big lie? A rainbow to be chased after fruitlessly until reality intrudes on the dream and you finally accept - this is it? Or perhaps the fact that I am asking the question at all mean that I have missed the point somehow?
Or perhaps I am just making a mountain out of a molehill. Maybe I need to stop thinking and just start being. Get back to the simple things in life. Put away my escapist toys and just live in the moment. Appreciate what I have and not what I do not have.
As usual, I come to the same conclusion after my one of my existential rants - I am probably my own biggest barrier to my own happiness. I let my fears and worries crowd out the bright spots in my everyday life.
*sigh* Lord help me from myself.
Is it external? In the things and/or people around you? Or is it more internal? In achieving a zen-like oneness with the universe? Is it all a big lie? A rainbow to be chased after fruitlessly until reality intrudes on the dream and you finally accept - this is it? Or perhaps the fact that I am asking the question at all mean that I have missed the point somehow?
Or perhaps I am just making a mountain out of a molehill. Maybe I need to stop thinking and just start being. Get back to the simple things in life. Put away my escapist toys and just live in the moment. Appreciate what I have and not what I do not have.
As usual, I come to the same conclusion after my one of my existential rants - I am probably my own biggest barrier to my own happiness. I let my fears and worries crowd out the bright spots in my everyday life.
*sigh* Lord help me from myself.