They say if you do not expect much then you can never be disappointed. They tell you “now dont get too excited” , “girl.. dont get your hopes up” . We live in a society where having hope is viewed as a recipe for damnation. Having hope is viewed as self destruction .
But , Why , Why can't we wish and hope and dream and be excited. Is this what life has done to us make us become aloof humans waiting for the next wrong. I will not be a hypocrite and say I wasnt doing the same thing. I am guilty as charged . I was one of those people , consistently waiting for the other shoe to drop. Pretty crazy for a 20 year old but this has actually become a normal thing for people of all ages .
It's like people have become conditioned to pain and disappointment for so long that they can't comprehend happiness its difficult for them to understand. Everytime happiness knocks on their door they condition themselves to see an ERROR message. It is as if being happy is this 3 part calculus equation .. when we experience it .. when we see it .. much like trying to understand a complex equation we panic , we turn the page , we skip it and go on to another subject because it is unfamiliar , its too hard , its impossible.
However , much like a complex equation if we allow ourselves to sit and assess the situation we will discover that this mysterious and challenging thing called happiness is not as unfamiliar as we thought ,we have seen it before , we have experienced it before , we have done it before. Whether it be the joy you had when you got your first acceptance letter , or when your mother told you she was proud of you . It has been displayed to us time and time again even if for a moment. Im not saying sometimes we might have glanced away and missed a step. Yeah , we may have miscalculated , chose the wrong guy , been at the wrong place at the same time . But the best thing about equations is you can work it out numerous times till you get it right. And there is no one way to get to the right answers.
So yeah .. sometimes happiness seems like a bad equation you can't solve. But I will be the first to tell you that no matter how complex it is to get to happy , no matter how long it takes , you will get there again because it's not foreign to you … you've done it before. You will do it again. Keep working on your equation . I will however give you a cheat for this equation. Hope … you can not solve it without hope .
Ta Ta ,
Happily Heartless
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