Thursday, October 28, 2004

What is happiness? I don't quite know if I know what it is, what it means, how it feels...

Is it the same as contentment? Like when when you've had a tough day and you finally get home and curl up under your covers and sleep?
Is it the same as satisfaction? Like when you paint your toenails 3 different colours until you finally find the right one and then your toes look like the prettiest things in the world?
Is it the same as pride? Like when your best friend is looked upon by other people with such admiration and envy?
Is it the same as excitement? Like when you are planning a night out with someone you like and you think about everything from what you are going to wear to your perfume to how you are going to do your hair just so that everything is just perfect?
Is it the same as relief? Like the moment the invigilator says "Put your pens down," on the last day of your exams?
Is it the same as having a sense of self-worth? Like that moment you realise that all you need is yourself to survive and that you can get by in life without anyone coddling you?
Is it the same as having peace? Like that instant your soul leaves your body and you know you don't have to worry about any of the shit you face on earth?
Is it the same as love? Being in love, being loved, feeling the love when someone looks you in the eye?
Is it that feeling you get when you laugh? That ticklish, abdominal crunching feeling?
Is it that feeling you get when you see your family together at the dinner table, squabbling about nothing and eating everything?
Is it that feeling when you hang out with your friends?
Is it that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you see the first rays of the sun and you know you have a new day to live?

Is it the same as not being sad?
Is it the same as not crying?

Will I know it when I feel it?

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