Happiness is a life on fire...

Happiness….a scary prospect?
Why is it when someone finds happiness do they not run even more towards it? Instead of away from it? What is it about human nature that tells us that we cannot just be happy?
Is it the thing inside us that makes us uniquely human in that we are always striving? Always looking for that next thing? Always trying to better ourselves and our situations?
Why do we run? Are we afraid of happiness and what it will do to our hearts if it is taken away abruptly? Do we not trust happiness? Is happiness not the greatest of all of lifes many gifts?
So precious …yet so few of us treasure it when we actually have it, and then miss it beyond reason when it slips thru our hands?
What constitutes happiness? Is it Houses, Cars, Money? Friends, Lovers, The one and only? Is it Passion? Is it following our dreams no matter where they take us? Is Happiness Peace? Is it accepting who you are in this life and becoming comfortable in that realization? Or is it shaking it up until life becomes what you want it to be? Is it not being stagnant? Never missing an opportunity to tell someone how you really feel about them? Because tomorrow you could turn around and they may be gone and you have lost that opportunity to make someone feel better about themselves or to know the truth…
Is happiness being alone on a Saturday morning in the quietness of the day and writing what your heart is asking of you? And the dreams that are running through your head waiting to be put to paper or instituted in the way only you can?
Is it the realization after a year that you have set a new course for your life and you have made the right choice and now have no regrets? And no matter what decisions you make now or which direction you go there is no going back to the life you left behind? And you kept your word to yourself that you would do everything possible to make things work until the point where there is nothing else you can do but let go and move forward….and the peace that comes with that accomplishment?
Is it integrity and honor then?
What are people seeking when their dreams consist of lust and greed? Is that their happiness?
As for me I measure happiness by following my intuition and my heart. If I am not following my heart it is not bursting from my chest with excitement and passion then I am not happy. That is how I measure my happiness. When a million things are running through my head. But, then I can still find my peace with the quietness of the morning.
Surely that is pure happiness….to be in a good place , a place where you are safe and comfortable, and on fire for what life has to offer you.