17. Something else on finding happiness along the way

 Today I wanted to write on some perspectives on happiness from what I’ve read and thought of lately, and pushed in some way by the pursuing of happiness everyone commits to. 

Happiness is something one cannot try to accomplish on its own, but something you encounter when you live with plenitude and in accordance to your nature. 

If someone seeks to be happy, that person may not reach it – it’s more something that ensues when you fulfill what you are for, when you live in accordance to what you are. 

You know, great Aristotle used to say that you are happy when you acquire virtues, like hard-working, love to others, sincerity and honesty, fortitude, joy, solidarity, generosity, endurance capability, abnegation, professionalism, etcetera. Virtues let you carry out a life that is worth living it. They let you carry out what’s good and that with facility and liberty. You can choose what is upright just because you wish to do it. 

Alejandro Llano was a Spanish philosopher and professor that coincided with this idea of living virtues to be happy. 

And happiness is not something that occurs to you in a fateful way: you don’t need to have a grinning smile the twenty-four hours of a day. Happiness is not something dictatorial which you have to fulfill all the time to. This is something that psychiatrist Luis Gutiérrez Rojas clearly states. It is more something profound you encounter. Happiness is something which is on the path you follow, not something you have to pursue obsessively. 

So as to finish: nobody can be happy if he or she does not love others: love is part of human nature. As well you need to feel loved by others, perhaps your spouse, your family, your friends, your colleagues, God in the first place. If you live in a selfish way, no happiness: who doesn't have the experience of feeling happy after having helped out someone in some trouble? Our surrounding people deserve our abnegation, service, and love. Think of that mother, that father, that professional, who give themselves to others. 

All this is just some consideration: much else could be said about it, sure thing! For example enjoying small everyday joys. Have a nice day.

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