Emotional Learning: The happiness thing

You know, some people say that happiness is the purpose 

of human existence.

What would a tree say is the purpose of being a tree?

If it could talk, which luckily,

it can't,

it would probably say that the tree's purpose was to be a tree.

Being a tree might just to the exactly wonderful thing

that makes a tree happy,

and so a tree must be pretty happy

all the time.

And how about you, fellow human.

It's supposedly a New Year, and there is various huff and puff

about the Mayan calender next year,

and whether that has anymore substance than the hundred's of "time ending"

schemes

that have crowded up and into history throughout

the centuries,

who knows.

And is today happy for you?

Is right now,

reading this notice on this computer sitting in

whatever chair you are sitting in?

If you were happy, how would you know?

If you weren't happy, how would you know?

Is happiness, like water boiling, something best noticed after the fact,

or can it be conjured up into being whenever we wish?

This is today's game:

be happy all day.

When you aren't happy,

be happy that you can discover something, some difference

that makes a difference, about how you go about making yourself

unhappy.

Read that sentence again: notice how YOU go about making yourself

unhappy.

Be happy for the chance.

When you are happy,

takes some notice and awaring into discovering the other side

of this action:

how do YOU contribute to your own happiness.

Any fool can blame another for their unhappiness.

Many a later disillusioned person will "blame" another person

for their happiness.

Pretend for today that happiness is an inside job,

and see how you go about these two actions:

making yourself unhappy

and

making yourself happy.

Bon voyage.