The pursuit of Happyness*

I haven’t posted here for a bit, but I’ve been pretty busy with my internship (which I will talk about in another post) and the arrival of my son and mom to visit me for the summer. I have had these  thoughts for a while and wanted to share them, so here goes…

I think a lot about being happy…and wonder what makes people happy?

I guess it’s different for everyone…it could be a smile, a touch, laughter, an experience, a lover…

We all have different moments in time when we can say we are truly happy..

I’ve felt for a long time that there are many things that make me happy, a smile, a kiss, a touch, a moment, to feel and give love in return…

These are nice things, good things that can be said it is happyness*, but like most things in life they are fleeting….

The kiss will fade, the laughter will stop and the lover may leave you…

And so my intellectual pursuit for what happyness* really is has continued for sometime.

It is to this end, I have come to believe and accept that happyness is having a purpose!

My purpose is being a good mom to my son…that is where my joy lies!

The kiss may fade, the laughter may stop and the lover may leave…but my love for him will always be.

This is my happyness* and I feel it even more now that he is with me. I smile and wake up every day and feel him next to me knowing I have a purpose and that purpose is the source of my happyness!*

p.s. Happyness instead of happiness is intentionally used throughout this post to describe my true state of being happy. See here  🙂