Hill Holler

If you remember back a few months I blogged about happiness being the loneliest of mysteries. In essence, what makes me happy won’t necessarily do the same for you but that’s easy to forget.

Why are we never happy with what we have? It seems each time the goal’s achieved, we’re incapable of saying “ok, that’s enough.” The bar always gets raised higher or the achievement feels empty because we tell ourselves that if we hit it, it must have been too easy.

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Ask people to sum up what happiness is in a few words and you’ll get a variety of answers plus a few furrowed brows. It’s a subjective topic, with parameters that are only defined within ourselves. That’s why I say happiness is the loneliest of mysteries, as we each have to find the answers alone that are meaningful to us. Let me share with you an example here from my own childhood. Read the rest of this entry »

Is it really possible to rediscover the joy, that carefree attitude that most of us remember from our childhood? Nothing in adult life is fashioned to encourage us to take pleasure in the simple things in life anymore. Should we? More importantly, could we even if we wanted to?

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