I Know This Means Something

As John Lennon said, "When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."  

 I first heard this quote last year on an Outward Bound trip in North Carolina. As I sat around the fire and heard this, the way I lived my life made sense. And still does. It makes fools of those who put so much emphasis on going to college, getting a career, starting a family. These are just roads to happiness not actual happiness itself. And yet, these "tasks" are seen with more importance. I believe the meaning in life is to be happy. Happiness consists of being sensitive in each moment, acknowledging it as new and unique. To do this it takes a receptive and open mind which sees what gives happiness to ones self. This in itself is living in the present. The past exists in the present, while the future is created in the present. From that, I deem that there i only the present, and I'm the happiest in the present. So live on fellow humans! Your happiness is here (i don't want to say out there, because that would being saying it's something you seek outside yourself). Find what makes you happy and realize that what you are feeling is happiness, because living feels good if you leave out all the judgement. I mean, only feeling exist after all judgement disappears.