Happiness shouldn't fleet

Sometimes what you feel is so hard to describe to another person. One thing I love about writing (good writing) /narrative is that it can bring an outsider into the story and feelings of someone else. While you are reading another persons story you are able to truly step into their shoes for a while. Good writing can cause emotions and understanding. I'd love to be a writers, to communicate complicated and deep concepts. It seems the most efficient way to express a difficult or unwanted idea across is through humor. Humor, intellectual humor is one of mans most evolved abilities. Life should not be taken seriously. Honesty and truth are funny. All a comedian has to do is point out a bit of humanity and we all start cracking up. In turn humor helps us to accept truth. There are many things in life that feel horrible that seem hard to handle but when we are able to laugh at them they automatically become less of a struggle. LIfe is a joke.

 Acceptance seems to be the key to true happiness. If we accepted everything that happened in life then there would be no struggle. We hear this idea all the time. Religious people preach acceptance. Psychiatrists speak of acceptance. Hollywood movies romanticize self acceptance. Yet we don't really believe it do we? Society is telling us through commercialization and expectation that we are never good enough. We always need the new iphone, we always need to keep up with the new trend, we always need to have the better degree, we need to graduate quicker, we need to make more money, we have to follow the newest most spiritual teacher, we need to be thinner... Life is never good enough for us. Im not saying that we shouldn't strive for more or continue to grow or do better for ourselves. I just hope that we can learn to enjoy the journey forward. I hope more of us will understand the journey to the pie in the sky is just as enjoyable if not more. We can be happy with where we are at the moment and still keep improving. My boyfriend recently lost his job, he struggles with depression and admitted to me that before meeting me his default attitude was unhappy. He told me he had always been striving to do well in school, get to a prestigious college and find a high paying job. He doesn't enjoy the process but would feel like a failure if he stopped. He never considered that it was supposed to be enjoyable, it was just a means to an end. I told him this was an awful way to look at it. Life is the journey if we don't make the journey enjoyable, if we don't remember that the journey is also incredibly important you will realize to late that you never lived. It mystifies me that he has never had these thoughts before but I am glad that I could put them in his head now, even if he doesn't change right away. I'd rather be happy than rich I said. Of course I don't plan on having to choose one over the other. :) I believe I can have whatever I desire, but Im sure as hell going to enjoying getting to wherever I end up! Happiness shouldn't fleet.