Flowers of Joy and Happiness, which teach us about life

These flowers greeted me today, as I rose early to cut weeds and remove fallen branches from my garden.

Lovely blooms, orange, rich, healthy looking plants.

I smiled and acknowledged their beauty and the simplicity of my joy, and my happiness.

As I worked under the cool light of the morning sun, the gentle breeze and blue sky made me smile, as I acknowledged their simple beauty, and I felt joy and happiness.

Joy and Happiness

We often hear of people searching for happiness.
People who seem to have enough of life’s basic necessities appear depressed in Facebook and Instagram.

While other people who possess the same basic necessities or less, seem very happy.

Why does happiness seem to allude some and not others?

Perhaps it’s not Happiness which is misguided, but the seekers of Happiness.

I feel many aspire to win the love and admiration of others, but fail to understand the importance of love and adoration for yourself. If you don’t love yourself, how can you expect others to do so?

I feel many aspire to the better job, the bigger house, the nicer house or the better mate.
But they find that these things bring joy which seems so fleeting.

Perhaps the goal of life and the reward of happiness is not to be sustained by the ultimate achievements, but the recognition of and embracing of the many moments of joy, discovery experienced during the many steps of the journey to our goals.

Perhaps, the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and warm embraces, we feel along the way are the many joys that add up to sustained happiness. Indeed a happiness which is self sustaining, because it is continuous and fills our cup of emotional experiences every day with joy, and sometimes sorrow. But each helps us understand the other.

Love yourself, love the beauty around you, be it architecture or nature, acknowledge and be present for the joys your eyes, ears, nose, tongue and hands bring to your awareness each day. Be present in your life, nit a silent traveler to transfixed on the destination to enjoy the journey through your life.

Life is not a goal or destination, it is a journey filled with many moments of joy and fir dome the elusive, mysterious state of being called happiness.

@shortsegments

This article was penned with my hand, these pictures taken with my camera, it’s substance was felt in my heart, formed in my mind, and it brought me joy. I hope you enjoy it too.

Title: Flowers of Joy and Happiness, which teach us about life