Happiness
The trouble with happiness, they say, is that you don’t know it when you have it — you remember it. But what if you don’t remember it, does it mean you were never really happy? What if, by the time you remember it, you are amidst times so dark happiness doesn’t mean anything anymore? Does the memory of happiness just drift away, gone forever?
I used to think that people can never be too happy, as long as they deserve it. I don’t know now. I think I deserve some happiness, too, but why does it elude me?
How do you get happiness, anyway? Is it given to you because you deserve it, like a prize for doing something good? Is it given to you because are a good friend, brother, son, or parent? Do you just get lucky and have it, like a winning lottery ticket? Or do you work for it, like a goal you strive hard to achieve?
"Why do you have this obsession with unhappy things? There are so many things to be happy about," Ina scolds me. I wish I could be like you, Ina. I wish I could drive away unhappiness with the wave of a hand. Ah, but I think despondency is my twin brother. I was born with it and am destined to live with it.
The thought of a big truck running me over still haunts me, Anthony. Every time it gets me, I try hard to think of happy thoughts, like the big, tight hug my mama gives me on my birthday. At least that’s one happy thought I can hold on to. But that thought may be overused, what with the frequency of me feeling down these days.
September 7th, 2005 at 10:10 am
The following is a story based from the message of the bible which says, “do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Sufficient are the worries of today…”;
“if the Lord provides for non-believers, the more He will provide for His children (followers).”
Be with God, Eric, and you will truly know what happiness is and how happiness feels.
*The Secret*
One day, one friend asked another, “How is it that you are always so happy? You have so much energy, and you never seem to get down.”
With her eyes smiling, she said, “I know the Secret!”
“What secret is that?”
To which she replied, “I’ll tell you all about it, but you have to promise to share the Secret with others.”
“The Secret is this: I have learned there is little I can do in my life that will make me truly happy. I must depend on God to make me happy and to meet my needs. When a need arises in my life, I have to trust God to supply according to HIS riches. I have learned most of the time I don’t need half of what I think I do. He has never let me down. Since I learned that ‘Secret’, I am happy.”
The questioner’s first thought was, “That’s too simple!” But upon reflecting over her own life she recalled how she thought a bigger house would make her happy, but it didn’t! She thought a better paying job
would make her happy, but it hadn’t. When did she realize her greatest happiness?
Sitting on the floor with her grandchildren, playing games, eating pizza or reading a story, a simple gift from God.
Now you know it too! We can’t depend on people to make us happy. Only GOD in His infinite wisdom can do that.
Trust HIM! This will fill the perpetual emptiness we were feeling from the start. This emptiness was created by God so we will search for Him.
And now I pass the Secret on to you!
So once you get it, what will you do?
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YOU have to tell someone the Secret, too!
That GOD in His wisdom will take care of YOU!
But it’s not really a secret…
We just have to believe it and do it…
Really trust God!
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Just Pass It On!
September 8th, 2005 at 1:02 pm
You do deserve some happiness… but sometimes, it’s a choice…
Ina’s right… there’s a lot to be happy about… and just like your blog title, it’s the little things that could bring joy sometimes… maybe it’s not that you don’t remember it… you probably just take it for granted :p
Oh and btw… HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
smile, it’ll lift you up a lil 
September 9th, 2005 at 5:35 pm
that’s probably why you loved GGM’s love in the time of cholera… come to think of it, not one among those folks were extremely euphoric about their life. Their unhappiness instead rewarded them with patience.
October 10th, 2005 at 8:46 am
i’ve always wanted you to be happy– sa kahit papaanong paraan na magiging maligaya ka okay ako.ang ayaw ko lang yung in the end ikaw yung nahihirapan.
pero i want you to know na super naiintindihan kita..as in lahat naiintindihan ko. ang problema it hurts me everytime na may magtatanong sa akin(***alam mo na)hindi kita maipagtanggol kasi no matter what i say hindi nila naiintindihan kaya nga gusto ko sana you prove them wrong.at tska isipin mo yung nafefeel mo na naawa ka kay **** basta everything you feel towards him– when he gets hurt..blah..blah…ganun din yung nararamdaman ko.gets?when your sad, sad ako…paggipit ka feeling ko gusto kong maging mayaman para mabigyan kita.basta! i’m making no sense hindi naman kasi ako good writer.hehehe
basta kung saan ka happy..happy ako..yun lang..i love you!