Happiness Belongs in a Jar of Cinnamon

Happiness belongs in a jar of cinnamon

No, happiness does not belong in a formation of limitation

a cylinder or a box or something constraining

Happiness belongs in those who wish for it

Happiness belongs in those who make it happen

Happiness belongs in you

Happiness is something that most search their entire lives

searching for and never find

Why? Because they aren’t looking hard enough

they aren’t looking in the right places.

They are looking for something pretending to be happiness

They are looking for some false advertisement they saw on TV

They are looking at some lying predicament they read in a magazine

They are looking for a disease that will consume them until they are numb

so they don’t have to feel pain anymore.

But happiness is something that doesn’t really have to be searched for

because it was never really lost.

A man once told me

that a dog knows how to be a dog,

a tree knows how to be a tree,

but humans are the only creatures on earth

walking around lost, not knowing what their purpose is…

We think we are the advanced species

but what is advanced about being lost when you can’t find your way back home?

What is advanced about disconnecting yourself from something that is biologically

innate in you?

We are designed to seek happiness but just as we are designed to seek it,

we are designed to find it

and most of the time it is spitting on our shoes asking us to acknowledge it

and we. turn. away….

and walk in the other direction.

How did we get to this point?

How did we become so disconnected to each other?

Who can I blame? What can I blame?

I could say America, the British, the Romans, the Greeks, the system, Patriarchy!

Would it matter?

It’s bullshit.

Since when does blaming get us closer to happiness?

It doesn’t. That’s why we don’t feel any better when we blame others

or when we blame ourselves

  

So fuck it.

Happiness is freedom to be ourselves

to be loved by us

and to be loved for us.

Happiness is a wishing well

and no matter if we receive our wish

it’s the fact that the well exists,

that we may wish

whatever we may wish,

and that wish exists

in the depths of our souls

to carry through this life of being lost

and lead us to the place of being found

for there is always happiness in a place where there is hope for a home.