Degree of Happiness

What is happiness? How do you define it, what constitutes as one? For some, this may be as simple as having the means to eat once a day, if at all. Others define them in forms of wealth accummulations, wealth of power, wealth of friends and relatives, and the list goes on.

I don't claim to have any defined meaning of the word happiness, after all, it is just that.....word. What is important is we can find the actual and truly meaningful understanding of what happiness is all about. I would tend to think that to each, happiness means different, but I am highly suspicious if possesion, power and greed would make up the components of happiness.I have been fortunate to be able to acquiesce with individuals who I really feel have found and content with true happiness. You can see it in their faces, radiant and filled with calmness.

To me, this is it, this is what I have to try to achieve.But I do know one thing, I have to find my own definition of happiness. It is my hope that I will find the true meaning of the word, not just the word itself. Rejoice everyone!