Post by emotionallyincorrect on Mar 1, 2015 12:02:58 GMT -6
It all started over an article I wrote for a small publication.
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“What is Happiness?”
Happiness is like chasing a ghost. We often think we can catch it, but as quickly as we see that ethereal shadow, it is gone as quickly as it was thought to be found.
For instance the “Happiness” when we purchase a new car. Is it not but a brief glimpse of a ghost? We are happy, proud and we have a new car, but it quickly fades and becomes years of payments, insurance, repair bills, and well, just like a child's new toy at Christmas becomes just another thing that is forgotten weeks later, so does the happiness of that new car.
So we have to really ask ourselves as human beings, what truly is happiness?
Let's have an experiment in “happiness”! Abolish the thought of every being happy in your life ever again, and replace it with 2 words. “Peace and Contentment”.
I had taken my 3 year old daughter to see her grandparents and while I was sitting outside watching her bounce from flower to flower in grandma's flower garden pausing to smell each one, she stopped to look at me and said, “DADDY! Grandma's flowers are BEAUTIFUL!”. I started to say something and I was overcome with tears. I was overcome with sadness so intense, it was as if thru a child, my Creator spoke to me!
It was a moment of “awakening” for me. It hit me like a ton of bricks, that as an adult I had walked by those flowers many times and NEVER stopped to notice them. An innocent child showed me the error of my ways! It finally struck me that being happy was something that was all around us! The innocence of our children that we as adults fail to notice, because we are chasing a different kind of happiness. One that cannot be sated!
This child showed me what happiness was all about! It wasn't about buying things! Show me one wealthy person who ends up happy enough that they just decide, “I am going to stop making money today.”. Money does not buy happiness, it pursues greed and becomes as habitual as an addictive drug.
Find peace in your hearts and learn to appreciate what it may take a young child to bring to your attention.
Happiness, is chasing a ghost. Finding peace and contentment in ones life, is the only way to ever truly “catch that ghost”.
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I wrote that article in June of 2014. It caught on like wildfire. It was posted on the internet, I was getting phone calls to do seminars and at first, I really thought I was on to something. The fame the money, and then I realized I was becoming what I was so against. I donated all profits of my seminars and books to food banks to feed the homeless. My yearly wage I allowed myself was $50k a year. Then that caught on, and so many people STOPPED contributing their hard earned money to the Corporations, the government came to a virtual standstill.
I am now in hiding. Many people from all around the world are now finding what happiness truly means. World governments are at a stand still and in their desperation sending out the military to stop this movement towards peace and happiness, however, soldiers are not obeying their orders. Many are joining us and protecting those of us from harm.
I have become Public Enemy #1.
Thanks for reading this short story. I hope the title wasn't too misleading. I was leaning towards thought provoking.
