by Cassie Howard | Jul 30, 2017 | Goals |
I’ve been thinking lately about what happiness looks like to me, and it’s nothing like what I THOUGHT it was back when I was a kid, looking at others and observing what appeared to make them happy. Happy is not having a “well-paying job”. Happy is not having “good kids”. Happy is not living in your “dream house”. Those things can be a PART of your happy, but just having one or two of those things is not, can not, will not ever make you happy. Because in fact, MANY things make you happy. Many things contribute to your happiness. You’re just not noticing or acknowledging them. But one thing I’ve learned, and what I really want you to remember is that nothing can make you happy unless you know how to observe and acknowledge the feeling of what happy is. So before you can even consider what PEOPLE make you happy, what THINGS make you happy, what EXPERIENCES make you happy, you first have to recognize what happy actually feels and looks like. To me, happiness is when your face changes from somber to “HOLY FUCKING SHIT, IS THIS REAL LIFE?!”. To me, happiness is when you hear or see someone do something negative, and 0.1 seconds later you’ve forgotten about it because you are surrounded by so much HAPPINESS, that your brain immediately dismisses everything but that. To me, happiness is when you wake up feeling EXCITED, looking forward to the day, practically jumping out of bed, instead of feeling anxious and overwhelmed before your feet ever even hit the floor. Do you know what happiness looks like...
