Many people search far and wide for happiness.
True happiness can only found from within. It is not in the world. It is in our hearts of heart. Unfortunately, it is by human nature that we seek what is in the outside before we look what we have from within. Some people resort to the pleasures derived from what the world offers: wine, sex, casino, movie, telenovela, food, and many other diversions which indeed gives off some sense of happiness, but just a fleeting, short lived kind of happiness.
True happiness is not found from what we take, buy , acquire, receive.... but from what we give.
Thus, true happiness does not come from the outside but from our heart.
So how do we find true happiness in our heart? If what we do mundanely like eating, watching movie, and many others are done in the name of love, then we will find happiness. Think about it, if what we do is founded always in love, it will make us truly happy people. When we drive our car or ride in a bus and is traveling to our destination, we just sit and relax, pray, admire the beauty of God's creation and blessings, rather than curse due to traffic, we will be happy rather than grumpy for we evoke love from within.
You also wonder why sex between married people is called making love? This is precisely a gift for couples to express their deepest love for each other and in the process of doing so, makes them happy, truly happy and bond them even more closer. You cannot claim the same is happening between couples who are not in love though they tag it as making love as well, as it is purely a sex act rather than love. Pleasure is indeed derived, but is only instant and is replaced immediately with remorse, guilt, fright, but not true happiness.
Most sources of happiness from the outside cost money. What comes from within is free! What we get from the world is limited and time-bounded, what is within is limitless and has no time limits.
It's what Jesus has been preaching over and over....Love God with all your heart, soul, and mind and love one another as yourself.... That is where true happiness comes from. It is from within. It is what we give off rather that what we take.
Try it now and stay on it. It's challenging, and I myself cannot claim I have perfected it, but the more we practice it, the more we get happier, truly happier!
God bless!
