Happiness
When it comes to happiness, we often times can not say where we are; if we are in it or out of it. Why it will not last or will not come.
Happiness can be illusive or elusive depending on our state of mind.
Sometimes we think we are happy, we believe we have arrived at our happyzone, but all we have done is achieved an objective or accomplishment. Which was bound to give only a flitting sense of contentment or wellbeing and the feeling peters away.
And sometimes we set happiness as a goal that we must achieve, then we spend our whole life pursuing it; tearing down and building up - flying high only to later crawl, yet not finding it.
In our pursuits we may mirror other peoples' lives, turn them into ours, capture their private dreams in the hope we'll arrive at their proclaimed state of happiness, and in the end our soul is still deflated and craving for substance.
To maintain any lengthy sense of happiness, one must seek inner peace first. We must learn to make every moment count; know that happiness is not a destination but a journey in itself.
Your feeling at the end of each day is a factor of every second of that day, and nothing more. And happiness as a state of mind is as diverse as our perceptions.
Each being must find what works for them as one man's source of happiness could be anothers source of pain.
But above all, happiness is in every single daily choice we make, but whatever else you chose makes you.
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BIO-SKETCH OF Arthur C. Ford,Sr.,poet
Arthur C. Ford,Sr. was born and bred in New Orleans,LA. He earned a Bachelor
of Science Degree from Southern University in New Orleans,where he studied creative
writing and was also a member of the Drama Society. He has visited 45 states in America
and resided for two years in Brussels,Belgium(Europe).He presently resides in Pittsburgh,PA.
His poetry(lyrics) and prose have been published throughout America,Canada,etc.
Recently he spent 30 days doing missionary work and travelling
throughout the country of India.