To Touch On Happiness

Saturday the 17th of August 2024 and the title of today's reflection is going to be to touch on happiness. So I wanted to touch a little bit more on happiness if I'm being honest because if I haven't said this already like in the past seven or eight reflections I've been feeling a lot

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happier like over the last like you know it will take seven or eight weeks. This isn't to say that I don't experience my down days, I kind of describe my emotional weather, if that makes sense, as having extreme highs and extreme

lows. To quote an artist called Little Sims, she once said in a song, I don't want to be but if you can't feel pain, then you can't feel the opposite. And it's like, again, I don't personally believe that there's anything wrong with my emotional weather, with the fact that I've got extreme highs and extreme lows. It just means that in the same way

that I can experience moments of extreme joy, I can also experience moments of, I guess, extreme sorrow, if you wanna put it that way. But I don't know, the things that are kind of like creating this steady flow and steady burn, you know, the steady burn of happiness have nothing to do with the things that I actually perceived or conceived would actually

make me happy. For example, driving a nice car, a car that everybody can respect me for because I drive a nice car, or basically having like a flood of, you know, a flood of partners, a flood of females that want my attention all the time and they just want to give me attention, or maybe an infinite flow of money in my bank account, or even a life without problems,

a life where I can just effectively kind of deal with every problem and basically effectively smash it with ease. None of those things that I genuinely believed were going to give me that steady burn of happiness. I'm yet to basically say that these things do give me that steady burn of happiness because I'm yet to accomplish some of them. Of course, they do require a

great deal of effort, energy and time or whatever it is. But I just tend to feel like the way I've been feeling for the past 7 or 8 weeks, that's just being very content and being very very happy with the present moment, like yeah, like it didn't come from like fast cars, females or like money in my bank at all.