A Moment of Happiness
What is it actually, when we say: “I wish I could be happy”? I’ve just realised how long I lived under a false idea of what happiness was. Just a moment ago, I experienced a beautiful moment of complete happiness, and it moved me to tears. To be honest, I didn’t even really understand what was happening. I only realised it later — or rather, I only found a name for it later. In that moment, I was simply living it, without knowing that it was a moment of happiness. For my body and my mind, it was simply a beautiful moment — I felt good, wonderful, and grateful to be alive. And what caused it? Nothing! No big event, no falling in love (unless you count that love for life I was feeling), no success at work or in my relationships, no major change. In fact, just an hour earlier, I had been feeling quite low. My self-confidence had taken a little hit, but I was aware of it, and I allowed myself to actually feel it. I didn’t let my mind decide whether it was true that I wasn’t good enou...
