Happiness

I remember a while ago a friend has mentioned something, a saying that has been going around for a long time, a saying I once believed myself and it went something like this: You can never attain true happiness, but it's worth searching for it all your life. Excuse the language but that line is just full of shit. Period. I mean seriously? why would someone go to such lengths to lie? "True happiness"? What the hell is that? There's not such thing, happiness is just happiness. There's no true or false, big or small happiness. If you live with someone your whole life and they make you happy then one day you find out it was all a lie and they never loved you, is the happiness you lived while being lied to, false happiness? No, it was just happiness, doesn't make it any less of a happiness if you were oblivious to what the other truly felt. 

Besides, it's stupid to say happiness cannot be attained, happiness is fleeting so of course it might stray at times and you might have sad times too, but that's just life, it has its ups and downs, it's not like you can expect only good things to happen, it's about the way you value the happiness you have. If you allow yourself to live then you can allow yourself to find happiness in the smallness of things, like your cat's purring or your dog's tail wagging or the way coffee smells or even the way the wind blows unraveling your hair or in the smile of your loved ones. Just smile and let yourself drown in happiness, because it's all around you anyway, you just need to open your eyes wider to see it.