Happiness

Taken from Trinidad Guardian, March 2013 

Here is the ad I mentioned in a previous writing.  Hope you can read it (take our the magnifying glass, if you can't).  For me, the advertising firm, Ross Advertising can win the Happiness Award!   I started  internet searching  using the word, happiness,  about 4 years ago  when I was at a low ebb and  boy can you ever find variations on a theme!   Some are seeking to build a better society, while others point to individual happiness. What we perceive as happiness is as varied as all other things God has made.

It's interesting, this thing happiness, that we all seek and it seems it comes through the incremental things we do.  For some people it is found in hard work or having money in the bank, the smell of a baby, your pet coming to greet you, standing on a podium giving a speech,liming with the boys, the smell that comes out of the hot earth as the rain beats down, the delight in a friend's eyes when he/she sees you, just jumping up and down, feeling that spring in the knees and ankles, the smile bubbling up to your face as the old heart pumps that blood, sitting in church bonding  in the Spirit with a bunch of strangers, sitting in the panyard bonding in the spirit with a bunch of strangers, building a house, watching a child graduate, helping someone solve a problem, laughing at your first boyfriend stupid jokes (yes, many years later, his jokes still aren't funny but you love him, agape love now, so you laugh).  O' the list goes on and on and sometimes just sitting and thinking about what happiness means to me, can make me feel at peace.  So as I continue to seek that elusive dream, I quote the words of that old song "Don't worry, be happy".  I told you  that once upon a time, I had a boyfriend who  gave corny jokes, so what do you expect from me?  LOL!

Until