True Happiness
True Happiness Many people have tried to find what true happiness is; very few have succeeded. Many people turn to things that are material to make their life better. Some people drink or do drugs to take away the daily pains of life and have just a bit of happiness, but this ends up going away, leaving even more grief. However, other people do not need to look for happiness, because they already have it. Even if someone is poor or doesn’t live very well, they can still have happiness. That happiness is love.The people who try to fill up their lives with luxury and wealth are never really happy. They just keep wanting more and more and they never achieve total happiness. There is always something missing in their life and they keep trying to fill the empty space with things that don’t really matter. A person who is wealthy or really poor can have true happiness; they can find what really matters. All they need to do is be more loving. The same happens to an alcoholic or a drug addict: they need something to take away the pain of life and fill up the emptiness that they feel. There is a problem with this: once the high is gone, that person faces the same problems that were there the day before. If these people can find someone who loves them, they can be helped through the tough times. I know this one person who had been an alcoholic for 40 years and he’s only 48: he found a God who loved him. True happiness is when somebody finds love. True love can only come from somebody who would do anything for the other person, even lay down his or her own life for someone. Someone like God can fill the void in a person without happiness because He loves everyone. I know this because He did this for me. If I didn’t have God I would be full of hatred and I wouldn’t be happy. In my church we have homeless people, drunks, drug addicts and gamblers come in and realize that somebody loves them. Some of them give up their habits and as a result they are happy. They live their lives differently after that, and are never the same. Material things can take up a lot of time, time that could be better spent with friend and family and people they love. Cell phones, iPods, computers, movies, TV and a lot of other things can take up most of a person’s time. For a person to be happy, they need to be around people who they love and who love him or her. The happiness that everyone is looking for is found in love. Some people’s whole lives would be changed if they found out that somebody actually loved them, and that they don’t have to be hateful or bitter for the rest of their lives. They just need to be loved. |
