HAPPINESS

I have a "What-If" for you.
Your head ain't gonna like it.
But if you can stand in this possibility for a while,
Not because it's The Truth -- it isn't,
(Well, not entirely anyway)
But because you might, as I did, get a shift in perspective about this enigmatic no-thing
Called Happiness.
You might loosen up a bit about how equivocal it seems to be.........
Wouldn't that be something?
Wouldn't getting happy be worth telling your head 
To get knotted somewhere else for 10 minutes
While you take a bath in hot possibility?

PRO-POSITION

Everyone is happy,

All of the time,

Because we are all, according to our will,

Doing exactly what we want to do,

Feeling exactly what we want to feel,

And experiencing exactly what we put out for.

We're just not happy about being so happy and successful!

Why?

Because we haven't realised what's going on.

If you're ill, and suffering about it, there's something you haven't "got" yet.

If you're feeling (angry), it's because you aren't done yet with the experience of being (angry).

If you're feeling impoverished in any way,

It's because there's some emotional juice in it for you.

If you're unhappy, it's because you choose to be this way.

And you are HAPPY in your misery.

You are being whatever you are being

Because that satisfies some need in you right now.

Now, the question is --

"What is that need? Why would someone do what I'm doing to myself?"

If a carpenter hits his thumb with his hammer,

He's not doing it for nothing;

What might the supposed payoff be?

Sympathy? Time off work? Compensation? To get some hold over The Boss?.........

(Fill in your own answers)

As pre-toddlers

We all got scared that our essential needs might not be met.

So we sold out on our natural happiness

And adopted Unhappiness

To manipulate others to look after us.

It wasn't neccessary -- we were mistaken about that, too.

But we developed a belief in Unhappiness
As  valid way of responding to a challenging environment.

Manipulation fairly quickly turned to efforts to dominate and control,

And we've been hard at it ever since

Trying to prove that the best way to get to Happiness

Is to be Unhappy.

We've missed a few startlingly obvious points --

• The strategy is not working. Du-uh-uh-uh!
• We've gotten old enough to take care of our own needs.
• Our personal Happiness is our business, no-one else's
• Happiness is not dependent on any one or any thing, and it will not be manipulated; it can only be accepted and realised out of What-Is.

Happiness begins to peep through the storm clouds when we realise --

• There's no other entity I would rather be than my self,
• There's no other place or time than I would rather be than here and now.