It is common to be happy for a reason, your birthday, the birth of a child, seeing a loved one that you have not seen in a while, yes there are many reasons to be happy.
The questions is: why would you be happy for no reason?
The power that you have by being happy for no reason comes from the fact that being happy for no reason is up to you alone. When you are happy for a reason, the happiness will be dependent on that reason. Let’s say one is happy for a birthday, then the following day when it is not longer one’s birthday there is no reason to be happy. For some that would even be a reason for being unhappy!
Today is the day after my birthday, so I am happy for no reason. But wait! now that I think about it, I have many reasons to be happy. My family, my friends, my life! So starting with being happy for no reason I find the many reasons to be happy. So, there you go. Being happy for no reason is the door to happiness for many reasons.
I love Paradox, life itself is a paradox.
One of the problems I see in today’s society is the need for equivalence, and thus we create a bunch of false equivalences. For example what I just wrote about “Being happy for no reason” is not equivalent for “Being unhappy for no reason.” Happiness and Unhappiness are not equivalent opposites. Yes, of course, we could just change the previous paragraph from happy to unhappy but the meaning will not be the same.
The world is better when people are happy, it is obvious but then why is that we don’t recognize the need for more happiness and the need to be open and intentional about it? We need to do a better job spreading this idea. So far hate and war are leading the way in the news, bad news sells better that good news, it is an evolutionary effect on humanity. But we are now in the XXI century and good news need to drive the world.
Make yourself an agent of happiness. Let’s get together in this movement of happiness. Let the world wakeup to a new, better, reality of happiness for no reason.