To choose a side

chasing what happy means

Spent years chasing something to call happiness.

 Chasing as if I could catch it and tame it.

Ever elusive it escaped into darkness.

What would I have done with it?

Wild as it was, could I train it and mold it to what I wanted it to be?

Would it ever stop trying to escape?

The chase ends in a sad but resolute moment, when dream and reality stop being compatible, stop being alike.

 To choose the side of the dream is to choose to never know what's real and what isn't.

 To choose reality is to give up the dream and settle into the routine of basic expectation.

Do not settle.

Instead impact reality with hope.

 

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Great write. I might have to add, that happiness is not only found in the dreams. There is an inexpressible joy when the dreams that we have been dreaming, become reality, and fuel our happiness.