"You do whatever you're happy to do!
If you're happy I'm happy"
This was the message I received
from my future daughter-in-law this morning
regarding some wedding plans.
These two lines and this photo
made me feel happy, for two reasons?
One, the memory of our happy double birthday celebrations,
and
two because she was concerned about my present happiness.
This made me think about happiness ~
I definitely was happy on our double birthday celebration,
but as you can see with some pensiveness,
where did this come from?
I have recently been looking at what happiness is
in a course on Practical Philosophy.
It was proposed that
'happiness is our natural state',
but it gets 'covered over',
but it gets 'covered over',
happiness
was likened to the light emitted
from a light bulb,
from a light bulb,
that could be impaired by gathering dust,
needing to be removed
periodically to keep it shining brightly.
periodically to keep it shining brightly.
What do you think?
Comments
I think sometimes life happenings can be the dust.. and yes to remove that.. or rather not remove but to heal whatever is dulling our light. know what i mean?
i want to stand in an open field where we throw countless armfuls of leaves into the open waiting sky.
xoxoxxooxoxo,
rebecca
I so miss coming to your blog all the time. And look what your are doing, waxing philosophical suddenly. How wonderful . I love this photograph of you and your future daughter in law together ~ she running and jumping and you trying to hold your balance, steady at the helm. I think that sometimes ( and Kazantzakis says this in Zorba but I am paraphrasing) that we do not know happiness while we are experiencing it, but it is only after the moment has passed and we can look back upon it that we realize, sometimes with nostalgia or regret, how happy we were. It is a strange phenomenon because most all of us know when we are experiencing sadness and no one has to tell us so. I have a lovely poem for you from Naomi Shihab Nye on Happiness. Here is the link. It is a favorite. http://www.panhala.net/Archive/So_Much_Happiness.html.
Much Love,
Noelle
You do look a little pensive in the photo. Was it taken in your living room? Had something just snapped?
Have a nice (happy) day, Boonie