Happiness

Regardless of colour, race, religion, social status, nationality or ideology, our main purpose in life is to be happy. To me, happiness is subjective and relative to what each one of us expects in life. It's variable as it changes with age.  In my childhood, happiness was playing with my dolls and listening to my grandma's amazing fairy tales! Later in my teens,  happiness was doing well at school, hanging out with my friends, falling in love all the time and getting on well with my parents.

Now, as an adult, my priorities have changed. and happiness has become entwined with my husband and all these little things  in everyday life that make me feel so happy- for example, watching the sunrise or the sunset, listening to the rain while reading "Jane Eyre" for the upteenth time, listening to Neil Diamond's Seagull and other songs like Love on the Rocks and September Morn, writing, blogging  or simply cooking a meal with Alkis.

I have now realised that happiness isn't a state, it's a positive emotion, it's an attitude, it's a hug,  it's getting every niggle off your chest, it's facing your fears and taking opportunities when they come. As the great French philosopher, Voltaire, said: " Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."