Saturday, December 18, 2010

Happiness

Some times, things just make you happy.
You can't explain it, it doesn't always make sense, and sometimes you might even feel like you really shouldn't be feeling the way you're feeling at such a moment.
It might be something as powerful as love, and twisted as a fetish, or as innocent as a favourite track of music.

Yet I think the most important thing we have to learn is that different things make different people happy.
You might think that something seems incredibly wrong, that it shouldn't be happening, that no good would come out of it.
However, I believe this reasoning comes from a lack of empathy or understanding.
There really isn't any foolproof way of putting yourself in someone else's shoes and experiencing exactly how a given circumstance makes them feel.
Most of the time, your third party judgement is clouded, based on some ulterior motive or pre-conceived belief on what you think you know.
I think there would be a lot less drama in the world if everybody learnt how to accept and care a great deal less about things that didn't directly impact them, or to have much less of a say in things that are just none of their business.

At the end of the day, you can judge and you can complain and you can pass all kinds of comments, but you're never going to change the way people feel.
Most of the time, it only takes a simple something, or someone, to make someone happy.
You can kick and scream and disapprove as much as you want, and maybe it might make a difference.
But you're just changing the way anyone feels.
You're just becoming a barricade, a bar in the road, putting a halt to something that one would expect, and hope, to come to naturally.

I don't know about you, but the last thing I want to do is stand in the way of someone else's happiness.


"I'll spend forever wondering if you knew I was enchanted to meet you" - Taylor Swift

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