Are you happy? That’s the question I found recently and really hard to answer it in a snap. I need to reconsider many things before I can come up with an answer. More extreme, someone just asked, do you remember the last time you actually felt happy? Some of us may find our life not so good, even sometimes we may find our life quite devastating. What happened? Time flies, the older we get, the more problems we have. That’s just the way life should be.
Do you remember when you were a kid, let’s say 6-8 years old, when you laughed more often than you do right now. When we take a look on an old photo album, we will find that we actually smile and laugh a lot during our childhood moments. We just don’t have the reason to laugh again now. We envy comedians in the shows, they could always laugh and they seem to be happy.
Don’t let your problems eat your happiness. Take time to realize what’s going on with you. Take time to re-think again and ask these questions to yourself. Is it really that bad? Is my problem really hard so that I couldn’t find any happiness in life? What’s wrong with my life so that I can’t laugh even just for small jokes? Facing problems everyday may consume your energy of life. But realize this, one day, when you are old enough, you will know that spending more energy to something not important is really useless.
Find what’s important for you now. Is that your family? Is that your spouse? Let them be your reason to be happy. By knowing that you have them your life, I believe you should feel thankful enough. Great Christian Philosopher once said, “We need to be childlike.” What does it mean to be childlike? It is staying child like to be open to new ideas. When you are a little kid, everything is wonderful and exciting and new. Somehow we lose that feeling as we get older. Childlike is different from childish, childish is associated with lack of maturity and spoiled. When we were children, we find everything is interesting and small things could make us happy, that’s childlike. When we were children we used to think that our family is really important, we really depended on our parents.
Let’s grow that kind of feeling again. Let’s find what’s important for us, be happy just because who we are now and for what we have. Laugh a lot and don’t forget to be a comedian in you life! Why become comedian? Comedians don’t just laugh for themself but to make others laugh along with them. Spread the happiness to all over the world you are live in.
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
-Audrey Hepburn-
