The Quest for Happiness Part 1

I no longer feel the stinging pains every time someone makes a rude remark to me. I no longer feel excruciating pain when I am mistreated by others. You wonder how can this be? The answer is simple and beautiful, it is because I have unlocked the long bared door that separates humanity from pain and happiness. I have discovered true happiness and how it is achieved.

I am still quite young I'm told; but I feel like I've been around forever. The truth is, I have been around forever, that is, my forever, and that is the only forever that exists because everything that is real for me is not real for you. We have different perceptions; hence nothing I know is the same for you, and nothing you know is the same for me.

I live in a world that in my mind I have created by my opinions of everything. In this world I am the main character and everything else revolves around me because I am not playing the role of you and you are not playing the role of me.

As human beings we all have this internal instinct to be happy we have a built in quest to achieve bliss and the satisfaction of our life is determined by our happiness. If you look around at everything people do, you will also see they are all attempting to be happy.

Often times you will hear things like, "If my body just looked this way I will be happy" or "Once I get my PhD I will be happy" or even better yet "If I was a famous Rock star I would be happy". With this in mind we can see that we limit our happiness and we can see then that happiness is as easy as being aware and changing the limitations that we set on happiness.

For example:
In my virtual world I have a belief that to be a great person, a person of respect, a person of value, a person worthy; I believe that I have to act a certain way, that is my opinion because it was imposed on me when I was probably still in diapers. Different people will have different beliefs as to how they need to act to be a good person and it differs more radically from culture to culture and in smaller proportions from given individual to given individual.

So what if we changed our belief about happiness? What if we erased everything we were told and wiped everything out and started with a blank tablet.

On my tablet I would write:

Perfection is who you are now, you have attained the greatest achievement ever imaginable just by being alive. When you came out of your mother's womb naked and alive you were perfect, everyone thought you were perfect, nothing has changed since then, except your perception.