What is happiness? at this moment for over 2000 years, people tried to understand it and explain it without any luck. It's different for each one of us, somewhere maybe it is just like the 5 languages of love as it is very connected to love, maybe. I think that it's the moment and what you need in that exact blink of an eye second. Let me explain a bit.
Walking down the street alone and listening to your music and just taking a look at the sky and a deep breath, just enough not to trip and fall. A second of calm that gives you energy for one day of storms.
Going to your loved one office just to say hello. Her/his smile will be everything and it will seem that everything that happened in your day was actually nothing.
Walking by a street musician and stoping for just 2 minutes from your race just to listen to him. Calm and positive you will get that head start in your race although you will be tempted to say that those 2 minutes can be used otherwise.
Holding your loved one hand and feeling their touch will make you feel protected but ready to face any danger.
Being at a concert in the middle of the crowd and just closing your eyes and taking inside the peace. Just imagine that you can actually have silence and feel the music int he middle of all that beautiful madness.
Waking up in the morning next to your loved one and by just looking at her/him realize that you are complete and that you don't need anything else.
Being polite/nice with a total stranger and how their face will light up it will actually make you feel good also.
Getting a massage in the morning from your loved one will make your heart race just thinking that you were the first thing in her/his mind. You being the sender will generate the same feeling on the other side and also it will make you feel good because you shared your feelings.
The list could continue for pages but what I am trying to say is that it is all about the moment. The most precious gift we could give somebody is time as it never comes back. It's the only thing that you can give and it can never be recovered. Funny how that is true, we can offer happiness and it costs us seconds. You might say it's cheap or it's expensive. If you offer it to yourself it's never too expensive. You will be tempted to say that when you give you seconds to another person it might be too expensive if it's not the right person or if they don't appreciate. First things first even the strongest person deserves kindness and maybe your second will be the thing that will change them so why not try. It will cost you 1 second to change the mindset of a person that in return will offer seconds to others and them to others and so on till back to you. How do you know that they don't appreciate if you don't do it or you did it and think that they didn't appreciate it because you didn't get the expected reaction? Trust me when I am saying that deep down they appreciate it but don't know how to express it to they don't realize at that moment how much it means and they will appreciate it later.
Happiness it's not a decision it's choice of giving. And maybe sometimes you will feel so heartbroken that you will not want to do it, but how will you get out of that if you don't give so that something returns. You will have your moments of sadness and confusion but you need to remember that it takes only 1 second to put a smile on somebody's face and somehow that will put a smile on yours. So I say to you that from those 24 hours 1 second can change the next 24 hours.
It's not about being strong, it's not about suffocating your emotions; it's about being vulnerable and open. Allow yourself to be surprised every step of the way, bad or good it's still a surprise. Now think for a second about this. Put your heart in the right place.
Maybe sometimes you will be scared to give any second to a person because you will think that you will be too pushy and they will run or maybe they will turn your second down. Take a deep breath and face your fear. You might be right and it's their problem not yours because giving seconds makes you happy just by giving them if you give them honestly or you might be wrong and your second will make her/him wanna give you a second back also. Just imagine happiness at that moment.
So you see, the "what if" keeps us from giving seconds and when you keep your seconds just to yourself they lose their value. And your heart it's the best banker ever it encourages you to give those seconds while your brain will sometime trick you just like a thief stealing your happiness.
Happiness is a feeling not a state of mind.
Give and you will receive seconds.
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