A Beautiful day 3

To be as happy as I feel now. I suddenly heard myself thinking.. It's just an emotion. I can't identify myself with this. Diann has said so often, that feelings come and go and we need to see ourselves as not being that certain feeling that's arising. So this morning I was thinking..This happiness could be just like sadness or anger or resentment. All emotions, that come and go. With every emotion, I'm usually able to stand back and notice. I can then see them, but also distance myself from them and not them take over me. But is it the same with happiness? Is that an emotion that I shouldn't identify myself with too? Should I just let it pass, as others emotions pass?

I don't reckon it's the same. Diann has said to me on several occasions that happiness is a state of mind or a state of being. We can choose to have this state of mind. When bad things happen during the day or we are met with challenges, we can realize that they don't make our moods any better and that it feels bad. But underneath we can still be a happy person. Isn't it said that, at the core of everything, is love and happiness??

Isn't love, which makes us feel happy, the drive for everything we do in life? Absolutely everything? Such as family, friends, work, food, clothes, sleep, telly, advertisements, movies, music, computers, travel, books, sports, socializing.. Absolutely everything is driven by the desire to be happy. People have different things that brings them pleasure, but at the core, all everyone wants is happiness and to feel love. An example: Work is to keep a roof over our heads and for food and to afford clothes and do fun things.. All to eventually feel happiness and to make it possible to look after to people we love in life.

So if I'm happy, then I shouldn't see that as a passing emotion. Because it's not. It's a state of being. It's a choice I can make, as to how I interpret and perceive this world. Everybody has a choice. They could choose to see a miracle in everything that happens or they could choose to see a grievance in everything. Each decision can be based on this. Choosing to see the miracle, makes ever person and every event positive. If somebody chooses a sad state of being. then this will show up in everything this person does, says, thinks or feels. It will show up in their reactions, in their interactions, in their decisions, in everything really. The same goes for choosing a happy state of being. This will also show in everything a person does, says, thinks or feels. If I know that behind every action I undertake in my daily life, there lies the reason to be happy and to express this and if I know that love is the core of everything, then isn't that having a positive frame of mind? Won't I always be reassured that happiness is something that will always be there and be stronger than any grievance, any judgement, any doubt or any feeling a inadequacy? And won't I always know that love is really what makes the world go round (alot of people say it's money, which could also hold some truth..but then again, why do we want money?? to feel happiness and fulfilled..but money doesn't fill us, love fills us and therefore drives us through life).

Can't I go through life, and never doubt that happiness will be taken away from me, due to a certain situation, challenge, loss or encounter? If I choose to do this, then of course I can. Every person I come into contact with, every circumstance I find myself in and every opportunity that presents itself, will give me inspiration. But only if that's what I choose to see. The happiness could so easily become overshadowed by doubt, fear and stress. But that's in my own hands too. I can let that be the case because maybe it can be easier to see the negative instead of the positive. It could me feel like I'm doing justice. I could convince myself that it could make me feel better, even it is temporarily. But it never will, because seeing people and things for what they truly are, is so freeing. I choose to see the miracle and life will unfold, as it has been doing and all will always be magical.