Pursuite of happiness

Happy - Ness...the condition of believing one is happy.  I had a profound and cathartic conversation with a couple from Idaho over the weekend.  We discussed all the things that aren't supposed to be discussed.  We talked culture, religion, and failure.  We moved from encounter into discovery.  I realize how uncertain and undefinable happiness is.  We all have our own descriptions, qualifications, and beliefs around happiness.  There is not a single objectifiable truth to happiness other than those you and I can agree on.

There is also the beauty in the conditions and states that we won't agree on.  I can get caught in the void of meanings, but if I hover around the slippery slope I get a beautiful glimpse of a gradation that gets created in the transition between what we agree and disagree on.  It is like a happiness rainbow.  Light being the happiness.  The clouds representing the frustration and confusion left by pain or whatever might cloud out the sun.  The blue skies are representing the clarity and brightness that comes from our shared unobscured exposure to sun.  So when we accept that believing what happiness is can change like the weather, then it makes it easier for me to appreciate the liminal space created when the clouds roll in or out and the sun begins to reveal the spectrum of truths that we all see with unique intensities.  What a versatile metaphor!  I wish for you constant rays of sunshine, but if there are clouds in your sky, please believe that the light and warmth is working hard to change the weather so that it can reunite with you, once again revealing that special gradation of truths.