The Will To Happiness

Hi, I am back to share some more thoughts with you on Happiness.

As I previously emphasised I strongly believe that being Happy, achieving Happiness in our lives is our undeniable God-given right. I believe that many of us wade through the various waterways of life without ever achieving meaningful and lasting Happiness.

Without Happiness, life becomes practically empty. You wake up sometimes and it's as though there is nothing but bleakness waiting for you out there in your world. Your future looks distinctly blurred and all that appears real and certain to you is a sense of nothingness. It is like a coldness coming from a deep hollowness within you. This is a horrible feeling that no one should be made to endure.

Alcohol and drugs cannot fill that emptiness. At best they can give you very temporary relief. Most times however, where there is over-dependence, they tend to make the problem a lot worse.

But this emptiness can be filled. There is no reason on this earth why this emptiness and bleakness must persist. But we cannot simply sit back and hope that through the workings of some unknown cosmic forces all things will suddenly be well.

For or us to achieve Happiness we have to make a conscious effort embark upon what is commonly termed 'The Pursuit of Happiness'.

Bottom line is that we have to TRY. For me the greatest crime we can commit against our own persons is not to TRY! That is an abomination unto ourselves. At the very least one has to TRY. By TRYING I am not referring to those half-hearted attempts that we all make when it comes to stuff like trying to live up to the resolutions we make at New Year etc. Those are simply petty lies to ourselves because the effort is not really genuine, not complete.

But when it comes to important matters, one of the greatest dangers is to lie to yourself. It is treason against your own welfare and a certain recipe for inviting unpleasantness into your life in the form of delusions at the very least. So if we say we are going to TRY then let us truly TRY!

Recognising the things we lack in our lives, the things that militate against our Happiness and feelings of self-worth and taking steps to correct such - is the very essence of wisdom.

We must believe that we are deserving and capable of achieving Happiness in our lives. We must believe completely that it is both our Right and our Heritage. That is what I call the WILL TO HAPPINESS. We must WILL it to have it!

Again I shall leave you for now and return tomorrow with more thoughts to share on Happiness. I leave you with this: WE ARE ALL DESERVING OF HAPPINESS NO MATTER WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US IN THE PAST. NOW WE FOCUS ON NOW! AND WE SHALL TRY!

I shall return.