In yesterday's post, we saw that joy is materialistic and happiness is a choice. One must, however, not get confused with the fact that happiness is both independent and not dependent on the things and people we have in life. While one need not require anything but one's own choice to be happy. One need not reject what is available and renounce to choose happiness.
Happiness is not in having a partner, but in the little things that we do together with them. Happiness is not in driving the desired car but even in driving the old wagon with the windows rolled down and the wind gushing through the hair, the sun kissing the shoulders and listening to an old track on the radio. Happiness is not in earning that paycheck to go out and show the world but in utilising that money in the things we always wished we did. Happiness is not in sitting in an expensive cafe by the pool and trying to fit into that gentry, but perhaps in sipping tea at that chai-thela when you always found the warmth.
Happiness is in the simpleness of things.
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