Yesterday was World Happiness Day and it was one of those
days that truly lifted my spirit particularly because I felt when I looked
random people in the eye and smiled at them, a burst of light and energy went
from me to them then boomeranged back to me. Filling my spirit with such joy
and delight. I loved every minute of World Happiness Day because I let go of
anything that was too heavy for me to bear and instead lived on the light side
of my journey. And it was beautiful.
Happiness is infectious because it is so liberating.
So freeing. So beautiful. It starts with a small tinge and spreads like wildfire
through our beings. Igniting us. Making way for passion to spring forth.
Allowing us to be creative because we are so alive to the present moment. No longer thinking or fearing anything that happened
seconds before or that could happen seconds later.
I loved how I felt yesterday because every time I smiled at
someone, they smiled back. Every time I told someone it was World Happiness
Day, some would take a while for what I said to register. Others questioned
what it meant. And where it had come from. Who had declared that yesterday was
World Happiness Day? But most were intrigued by its meaning. And lifted by the
thought of what it meant even the most cynical.
I discovered that when I added the statement, “make someone
smile today”, I would naturally smile while saying it causing whomever I said
it to to respond by smiling back. Making my smile grow even more genuine and
larger. And anyone within our close proximity would feel the happiness energy
and they would smile too.
Teaching me that happiness is truly a state of mind. An ability
to surrender to all that is, was and ever will be. Accepting that we are where
we are meant to be. That everyone and everything that crosses our path does so
for a reason. Because when we smile. When we declare ourselves to be happy, no matter
what I going on around us, we feel joy, contentment and peace.
I loved that yesterday was declared World Happiness Day
because it fell on the Equinox of Winter and Spring, and the day here in
Bermuda could not have been any more beautiful. So all of my senses were
awakened to what it means to be happy. To be joyful. To be a bringer and
spreader of love and light without expectation. Without preparation. Without
understanding. Just by being fully present in the moment. Taking my smile with
me wherever I went.
So I have decided that from time to time I will declare days
to be World Happiness Days of my random choosing particularly on those days
when I don’t feel I have anything to be happy about because that is exactly
when I need to make others smile because in making them smile, I smile, others smile,
we all smile and discover just how fortunate we all are. Just how blessed we
are in this journey called life because we understand happiness is not a state
it is a process just as we are. A journey that is neither stagnant nor frozen.
I am so grateful to have experienced my first World
Happiness Day and here’s to many more. Allowing good thoughts to radiate from
me changing me to be beautiful inside and out and spreading to those who cross
my path as well.
See how long it takes for you to remain unhappy when you
listen to the Happy Song by Pharrell Williams. Hum it and feel how easy it is
to be happy. Love it. Thank you world Happiness Day for spreading the love by allowing us to tap into the bountiful reservoir of our inner and natural place of happiness particularly on the first day of Spring. Because I'm Happy...
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