Happy

A Story by Pandamoon

It was a report I want to save

Holly A. Frey

Mr. Mastska

College Comp. 1^st hour

10/23/2011

Happiness

Happy /hape/ 1. Showing or feeling pleasure or contentment, this is the definition of happy, but can words really sum up such a feeling. This definition is only a shadow, a mear glimmer of the true depth in the meaning of this simple. Happiness is a feeling you get in a moment of time when everything seems perfect, when you love something or someone or when you laugh or smile. Happiness is why we get up, why we cherish our friends and family and why we protect them at all cost. Happiness is brief and varied, meaning so many things to so many.

Happiness is a love for someone. Think of your family; whether it be a husband or a wife, a mother or a father, think of how you love them, how you would keep them safe even if it meant your harm. We would put ourselves in harm’s way for another, why? The answer can be found in one of the rarest and most precious moments in all our lives; when you look down at the innocent face of your newborn safety cradled in your arms after 9 months of worry and fear. Looking into their eyes you will get your answer, as you feel a moment of such happiness that strikes you so fiercely you know right then you would do anything for them. You see the happiness they will bring to the world they still have yet to see and experience and the happiness you know they will bring to you and right then you know you would never let something so special and pure be extinguished from the world. You know that as you love them and they love you in return, you are granted with such happiness so beyond the level of comparison that everything seems to shrink away. Happiness is a force, force to be reckoned with.

Happiness is fleeting, as hard to grasp as water through a fist and like the light of a sunset along a horizon, impossible to hold onto forever.

“It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on The Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only purse and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what,” said Chris Gardner in the movie Pursuit of Happyness.

But impossible to ever have, and to always be in pursuit, that I believe is false, because however brief you’ve had them, whatever short time they were yours, you have had those sweet moments of happiness when the world seems to click together for a few seconds and everything right then is perfect, and that’s what makes it so sweet, so cherished in the few moments we have it in our sights and within our reach. The way they fleet from our lives and slip from our grasp is what makes them so special, so much more in value then gold or silver. We are unable to squander them and only able to be in awe at those who have them and never take for granted our own moments of bliss. Happiness is as fleeting as a shooting star across the blanket of the night sky, but that is as it should be, and with luck always will be. Happiness is brief.

Happiness is as diverse as the people who seek it. Varying in each person and changing as swiftly as the wind, happiness is different things to all people. To Chris Gardner money was the key to unlocking what he sought as happiness. His very own happiness came from looking at his son and knowing he had all he needed, that he was with him and cared for, and what might have been the most important, seeing that Chris Jr. was happy in his own way. Money was never what he sought or it would have been by all means easier to achieve if he had left his son behind, but in togetherness he really found his happiness, and that’s what it meant to Chris Gardner. Happiness is forever changing.

Happiness is a love for something.

“Don’t ever let somebody tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me. You gotta dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do somethin’ themselves, they wanna tell you, you can’t do it. If you want somethin’, go get it. Period,” said Chris Gardner, Pursuit of Happyness.

For some people, their entire lives lead up to a career. Their lives are full as they live their passion. Taking with pride each assignment they do and revel in the times that bring them happiness and that leads to contentment no other life could bring. To them, loving someone could never amount to the times of happiness brought by what they do. Thought Chris did not have a passion for this particular drive to happiness, as he never wanted the job till chance happened upon him. He did look around on the steps when he asked the man with the bright red car what he did and how mdid he do it and saw people smiling. Living in their moments of happiness as they left the joy of their job, their passion, and most importantly their very own happiness. To some people in the moment he looked around at those steps, those people felt so much love in the thing they do that nothing else could fill the space in their life that their jobs so happily did. Happiness is passion.

Happiness is having or feeling pleasure or contentment. Happiness is fleeting and diverse, loving someone or something, the force of our life and the goal as we live, why we take each breath and eat each bite. Happiness is a unstoppable force that will never be tamed or captured, always flying and resting only within our grasp for brief, delicate moments. Happiness is you.