Do you also feel sometimes
that happiness is hopelessly overrated? 'All I want is to be happy',
nothing else matters. And so we search and try and take all sorts of
desperate measures (like jumping out of planes and getting married)
to somehow trap happiness and call it forever ours. Just as looking
for true love, the search for happiness becomes like the search for
the holy grail. Yet truth is: It doesn't exist. There are happy
moments, but constant happiness is merely a Hollywood illusion.
The problem is that the
feeling of happiness is a powerful drug and hence it is highly
addictive. Again, it's the same with romance: Once you've experienced
being in love you want more of it! Once you've felt overwhelmingly
happy you end up chasing this feeling as if it was the air you need
to stay alive. Human obsession.
I'm tempted now to write
an ode to sadness and melancholy but...maybe another time. Instead,
I'll ask you a simple question: What makes you happy? Because
if you know what you're looking for the chances are much higher of
actually finding it...
Over the last 6 weeks I've
asked the same question to lots of different people and filmed their
answers. The result is a little video which I'm using to promote the
re-release of the English ebook of THE LITTLE BUDDHA – more
information @ www.thelittlebuddha.net
Here's the video. Enjoy!
