Happiness


“A day of happiness an year of tears demands” – these are the words that the philosopher and poet Omar Khayyam wrote over one thound years ago. And he was right… Or maybe not…Who knows for sure? What is really happiness?
There are more than one beliefs about happiness. Sometimes it is conceived as a high ideea, a far-off ideal, above all our powers to achieve; the true happiness would not be possible during this lifetime. One of the greatest sober-minded of Antiquity, Solon, considered that nobody is happy during his lifetime, because at any time great missfortunes can rush upon us. It is true that all moments of happiness are so close to missfortunes and it is also true the fact that, in order to achieve its cause, happiness must lock behind a dark curtain all the sufferings that make one’s life hard; but, if we don’t feel pain, we could never feel happy, because if we don’t know and feel pain how can we say that we know what happiness really is? If we “release” ourselves from all conditions of our inner pain, so that we wouldn’t suffer anymore, would it do us any good? Is a desert without wells milder for those who are lost and dying of thirst? No! The illussion of Morgana girl keeps us alive !
Some cosider happiness to be an ideal. It may be so, but, it doesn’t mean that it is unreachable, it means that we should look for the things that really make us happy, the power is in our soul and mind. The receipe of happiness defers from one person to another. Some are happy because they managed to achieve a great fortune during their lifetime, others are happy because they have a healthy friend or family and others consider that being appreciated and respected is a sign of happiness; others – particularly women – are happy knowing that there is someone in this world that loves them or only by knowing that the person they love is out there somewhere breathing the same air. There are some people who “fabricate” for themselves a “paradise” in which they feel