"You're The Happiest Person I've Ever Met"

I have always found it difficult to know what happiness means. Does it mean a period of uninterrupted joy surrounded by rainbows and cake? Or is it more of an acceptance of circumstance? Is it something subtle that you only realise on reflection or is a mad bliss where everything goes as you want it to? I write because I do not know the trick to it. I think trying to be happy all the time often leaves people in a state of dissatisfaction because of how hard it is to pinpoint its whereabouts every single day. Is it possible to live in a stable state of happiness? I don't mean to sound like a dramatic twat with this topic. If i'm honest, I just find it really, really interesting. You get these people that are deeply religious or spiritual who believe that happiness can be achieved long term and that minds can be moulded to achieve it. What do you think?

Since starting school I've always been labelled a happy person and it hasn't really changed since. I remember someone in my class telling me I was the happiest person they've ever met and although that's clearly a lovely thing to hear (and harshly untrue - i'm a right bitch), it made me question other people's perceptions of happiness. I talk and I'm confident in public as a reaction to stressful situations, it's my coping mechanism which has built itself into my character. I smile and laugh because things definitely do bring me joy and because that's what I look for in other people. I find it so interesting that someone thought that I was 100% happy in my life because of my body language. This is why I think that there’s synthetic happiness and natural happiness. Synthetic happiness is when I cheer myself up by watching a video about an octopus climbing over a rock on YouTube (watch below for a minute of pure joy), when I eat pizza and when I passed my driving test. These things are awesome. Synthetic things are like health packs in a zombie apocalypse that temporarily boost your well being and state of mind. They are good things!

Natural happiness is the difficult thing I think people are always trying to find. The cure in the zombie apocalypse. That stable state of mind that's impenetrable by the one ring and the dark side of the force. We know other emotions like anger, sadness, pleasure and jealousy so well, but not this. I think the curse of being the most advanced species is that we won't ever TRULY understand natural happiness, but we will always be trying to. This is why I think true happiness is a state of mind AND is complemented by but completely separate to synthetic things like Ipods and nice hair. Cleopatra, the beautiful Queen of Egypt, endowed with power, induced a snake to bite and kill her. Kurt Cobain took a shotgun to his head and ended a successful career as a rock singer. René Favaloro, a heart surgeon who pioneered the process for bypass surgery shot himself in the heart. These are people who had HUGE synthetic happiness in their lives, yet ended them. You get the idea. 

There isn't a switch that makes humans happy all the time and there will always be pain and you know what, that is absolutely fine! Be cool with it. Make peace with the fact that so many people don't understand how to be 100% happy all the time too.The irony of this blog post is that I feel incredibly happy today and that's the only reason I wrote this. I also will apologise for writing the word happiness so much. I actually wrote it 12 times which is so excessive and don't worry, i've annoyed myself too.

I love you for reading this post and I hope you live your lives with happy minds surrounded by happy things.