Happiness

Jovan has been raving – or ranting – about happiness in his blog. Happiness has been a perennial issue among friends: where to find it, how to get it. Better yet, what are the things that would make us happy?

This would make a good topic in one of those drinking sessions.

Jaded as I am, I think it’s human nature to forever search for happiness. Human beings’ desires are insatiable. Sometimes, we would define things that we think would make us happy. If we get them, however, we would want more.

Perhaps I’ve been watching too much Sex and the City reruns lately. Season 1 finds Carrie wanting a steady, defined and committed relationship that Big couldn’t provide for her. She wanted to be with someone who had marriage in mind – eventually. When Aidan came along on the 3rd season and popped the big question, she wasn’t ready to get married!

What are we, women, thinking?!?

I wanted a stable and committed relationship for me. I think I have it, but still, I find myself looking for something else. Not someone else – but something else [Now I am inclined to believe Emer that I could be quite a complicated girlfriend].

The same is true for a lot of things that we already have. We wanted them, got them anyhow, and still crave for more. Worse, we realize they’re not what constitute our happiness as how we pre-defined it.

Happiness can be very elusive. But I think it’s partly our fault too that it is.