Finding Happiness

I have attached my happiness to intangible things for as long as I can remember. If I don't have that certain thing that I want at the moment, it will haunt me in everything I do and everywhere I go. It will show itself up in every single situation I encounter and it will even follow me to my dreams. I will dream about it very often. Wake up thinking about it and sleep thinking about it. Why? Because I am a human. And what else other than happiness do humans want? If that thing has the tag of happiness attached to it, I will do anything to get it.

Then when I do get it, I am extremely happy. I go on a high for a short time and then it goes away. Then I am out looking for something else to attach my happiness to so that I can experience that high once more. But that high lasts for a transitory period. There I am for months and months, even for years seeking that one thing. Months and years of struggle thinking about this thing and when I do get it, the happiness lasts for such a short time that it is not even worth all the effort I exerted to acquire it.

There is a defect here. A major defect. Is there a way to live happily every single day. Can happiness be a thing on its own? Not attached to anything at all. Can it be independent of anything? Like float on its own, a floating force or bubble of happiness right there in the palms of my hands every single second? It has to be. And it is.

But is there a way to stop the cycle of using happiness as a currency? How can I let go of thinking about that thing I want and  living in this floating force of happiness in my hands? I do not have the full answer at the moment but I really think that I am grasping the idea. When I do get the answer, then I will be writing about it. But for now, it is enough to say that happiness is not attached to anything. It stands on its own. If anybody is capable of understanding this idea, of finding the cause of the problem, of pointing to this thing and saying "yes, this is where the problem lies, I see it." If one is able to say that, then you have discovered the disease. I know exactly where the problem is and now I am going to look for a solution. I  must say, just by knowing what the problem is, I feel better already. Just by knowing what the problem is. That is powerful.

I pray that we all be guided to the path of The Truth. The path of God Almighty. Because I am absolutely sure that that's where tranquility lies.

May peace be upon you all.