Genuine happiness

I have been trying very hard to be genuinely happy, but it seems like there is a price to pay for happiness, and for that, it is difficult to be genuinely happy.

Is it difficult to not judge another, to not place your happiness on another's anguish? Before you acquit yourself of guilt for the above, please, take a second and ask yourself, what was your last 'happiness' based on? These are heinous crimes that a community should not be committing; These are nothing less than legal murder.

So, what is true happiness? Some claim that true happiness is best discovered when serving others; when you want the best of someone else, when you want them to be happy, while some claim that true happiness is something that only you, yourself, can create for yourself, something similar to contentment.

From these varying definition of happiness, we do know that happiness is not something we can explain simply in words, not something where there is a hard and fast rule of attaining. If anything, the one takeaway we have from this is that happiness is subjective, and like the placebo effect, you will be happy if you truly believe that you are happy.

Now, I have two questions I want to ask you - Are you happy? Are you genuinely happy?

It has been a while since someone genuinely wanted me to be happy. And I miss that.

I miss having someone who understands me. You may think that you do, but, truthfully, you do not, for the simple reason that we have different priorities. You will never be able to fully comprehend another whom you are unable to model yourself upon. You might think that you understand what I am trying to say from my posts, but, quite honestly, anyone with a decent command of English is able to do so. 

Don't believe me? Try it, ask yourself, how much of me do you know, how much of me do you not have to guess?