True Happiness

Do you buy into the cliché, "it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all"? I don’t. Do you believe that there are levels of happiness? For example, is a child enjoying a popsicle stick anymore happy than you are on your payday or vice versa? Does a more comprehensive grasp of the world around you and education improve the quality of your happiness? How could you be aware of what you’re missing if you never had it? Obviously, whoever coined that phrase about love had experienced it, you couldn’t make that comparison otherwise. However, I believe that a smile is a smile and a laugh is a laugh. Happiness does not improve with age or love, it just is. You cannot miss something you never had and you’re not worse off if you never get it. Happiness is Boolean, it’s either you are or you aren’t. I would even contend that happiness is more pure when you are younger. I want to be a child again. I want to be happy to see fresh snow or a new box of crayons. I want to be happy sneaking a sip of cola. I want to be happy jumping on the couch. If anything, time has done nothing but dilute my happiness. You don’t see children searching for happiness, it just follows them around. On the other hand, all the adults find themselves in this life quest for said elusive happiness. We’re looking at our jobs, through the pages of self-help books and in our wallets for the same happiness that resided in an empty cardboard box. Maybe the only thing that’s keeping us from true happiness is some brain trauma. Who needs this adult stuff anyways? I don’t want to grow up, I’m a Toys’r’Us kid.

Today's track:
Rooney - When Did Your Heart Go Missing?