Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Is this happiness?

Today I would like to examine something critical to all of us, "happiness".

I do know we all do go through this burden, searching for a meaning to living happy and feeling good in life and love.

The fact of living and having happiness in life calls on all and becoming happy is something everyone wants and will cherish having.

Do you feel there is something missing from your life? That perhaps the world is against you or that other people seem to smile, laugh and be a lot more happy and contented in life than you are? Have you ever stopped to wonder why this might be? Moreover, what you can do about it? Have you even considered what happiness actually is?

Happiness and contentment in life differs for all of us, what makes one person happy doesn’t necessarily bring contentment to another. Very often we are happy in life but we just don’t realize it. Very often the hustle and bustle of life can completely overtake all else and leaves us little time to enjoy the things that make us smile and enjoy life to the fullest. If you stop and sit down and think about what actually makes you happy and feel contented, you might actually find you have those things already around you but you just didn’t realize it.

However there are times when we can get into a slump and haven’t yet come across the conditions that we regard as bringing happiness and contentment. If this is the case then you have to figure out what changes you need to make, to bring happiness into your life, in most cases it is the smallest of things which bring happiness and you have the power to gain them by working towards them.

Your happiness and contentment depends entirely on you, no one else can give it you, it is something inside you that you have to find and work towards.

You can either decide to stop in the rut or to take positive action and make changes to your life or yourself in order to accomplish contentment. In order to understand what happiness means to you, the first step you
should take is looking at your emotions, ask yourself questions such as “if I could be enjoying something in my life, what would it be?” and “what makes me feel contented in my life right now?” Once you understand what your vision of happiness and contentment is you can build on what you have now or focus on changing your life to what you would like it to be.

The important thing to remember is to examine your feelings by way of the answers you give to your questions, examine them honestly and concentrate on the good or bad feelings that you get from your questions and answers.

There is no magic spell or potion that can bring you contentment and happiness, it is something that is already right there inside of you, you just have to realize what it is and develop and bring it out to start enjoying life.
Happiness can be found in family life, work, relationships, nature or a pet, to name just a few, in fact it can be found in anything and any situation if you just know where to look and look in the right direction, the inner you.

All men cry
Men do mean cry
Have you ever seen love line?
When loneliness atone the try
And love lights no line

All men do mean idle cry
When love is so far and all done is try
Yet all doors closed and friendship fry
It is the dillydallying of all men.

Men and their mean boldness
Showing not the cloudiness but soundness
It is that plan-mapped of youth
Yet all men do wail idle cry in truth

See the steps gaily sought
Women taught gentle vessels
Yet in love and loneliness men are tough
But in creek secret, men fry in cells
Salau O John©2010

Malice
There is fear in malice
If you believe me not
Try to keep it and see
It breaks friendship and fries it hurt

I saw you and I say not hi
And I walked in my bemoan heart
Noting not the future that ply
But bullying a better future for start

I say you smell and I hiss
Yet within me your past smiles I miss
I know love stands our remedy
But what ails your heart indeed

Let’ walk together laying them eggs
With alone to lay our togetherness
For lives are mapped in fun-friendship
And malice does mar the only truthfulness
Salau O John©
 
Music
Like the balm of Gilead
It sooths and comforts me
And the sound breaks the boundaries to lead
It lies in setting the heart free

For millions of hearts a burden atoned
And from ages untold the words did fall
For in these our hiss in the world burned
And pray for only God the song to call

From above came the fire of tongues
But on earth a change of tone
Yet our hearts hails in heavenly songs
For that we hope a song to swing

Music
A thing for hearts projection
Men and women forever to click the critique
And God with angels connotation for consolation
Salau O John©2010

Thanks for reading my blog,

Salau O John (O.O.J)
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