A Testament of Happiness

We're back, kids.

It's been a long while since I've been able to go about doing a blog, and I must say that I truly miss being able to relinquish thoughts onto this webpage. Goodness, has there been a lot going on. Only just recently though have I had something that I feel like I absolutely need to write about, because it's been a nagging issue to my conscience for a long while, something that I have been blogging about since the beginning, and what might be the entire reason I even started this blog in the first place: happiness. There has been a lack of it all around me, not only in myself, but primarily in others that has been affecting me. It involves the sort of happiness that, from my observations, is the most sought after yet what can be considered the most invaluable of all happiness: materialistic happiness.

Something lost from younger generations.

It seems that as the generations get younger, often times I catch myself in the act, that they don't seem to value much that isn't something that they can posses; something that they can have. It can be something entirely in the state of the moment: a new toy seen on TV, some junk food to eat when you're bored, something that will soon be forgotten and stored away. I see this a lot with my younger siblings, nothing seems to make them happy unless its new and benefits them in the short term, then it is forgotten and left unappreciated. I own several video games for many different consoles, yet I constantly hear the phrase "I'm bored of all these games." There is a refrigerator and cabinet full of food to make, yet they open the door and state "Let's go get some candy." The thing is, though, it's not just them.

It's a disease that plagues us all.

But the question I ask is this - where has all of the happiness gone? What will it take to make the younger generations and even the current generations happy? It's difficult to pinpoint what the source of happiness is for each individual, as that source is often different for every one person. I know of numerous individuals lost in the bind of sadness and depression and anxiety, unable to free themselves from the chains of despair and reach the ultimate goal of happiness for themselves. It's just the issue of obtaining the goal that stands in the way of many. Perhaps that is something we all should begin to realize as the generations ware on. Happiness comes in many forms, it's more than materials that we enjoy or feelings that we feel. Happiness comes from everywhere.

You just gotta look around.