Do you often claim that happiness runs away from you? That whenever you are to conquer it, it goes, like smoke in the wind?
Are not you, like many of us, who put your happiness in the future? Something that is designed and that someday, who knows, can be reached?
Perhaps therein lies the great difficulty of being happy. We do not know how to appreciate the passing moment, what we have, what we are, where we are.
Let's see. When we walk, our happiness is in buying a cart. No matter the size, color, year. Important to run, take us from one place to another, without long waits at bus terminals.
When we finally got the car and started to use it, we started to want to have a bigger, more comfortable, more economic, better, anyway. And this is where our happiness resides.
We do not even give ourselves time to be happy to have the first car. Terms reached a goal.
When we do not have our own house, we dream about it. To be free of the ghost of the rent, we can, in our property, do what we want, without having to ask permission to the owner.
One day, then, we reach our desire. Here we are in the house. Instead of being happy, planting a garden, and putting the little treats here and there, decorating our private corner, we begin to dream of a bigger house.
Or, then, in a better neighborhood with more amenities. After all, it would be interesting if each family member had their own bedroom and bathroom.
And we dream, and dream.
Now, to want to progress is proper to the human being. Wanting to improve living conditions is natural. However, what does not allow us to be happy, at any moment, is not to value the accomplished achievement.
And learn that happiness is not especially about having things, but about knowing how to give them their due value.
More precious than the car, is the possibility of riding with one's legs. Is to have arms to narrow, to tighten against the chest who loves.
Better than the house where you live is to enjoy the happiness of a home, which means family, place to live, to expand, to grow, to love and to be happy.
This is the secret of happiness. This is why we find beings who have nothing or almost nothing and know how to smile.
This is why the children, who have not yet entered the scheme of consumerism, are happy to play, to run with friends.
They forget if it's cold or hot, whether it's time to eat or sleep. The important thing is to enjoy the last moment of the joke with friends. So every day, they tell us with their smiles: It is possible to be happy on Earth.
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Cheer up your day with the prayer of gratitude to God.
Are you alive.
As life expresses itself, the opportunities to grow and to be happy multiply.
Each day is a new blessing that God gives you, giving you proof of love.
Follow the succession of hours, cultivating optimism and well-being.

To recognize the enormity of the Universe is to admit our own immensity.
We are not just dust before incalculable dimensions and distances.
We are thinking galaxies, traveling, fast, through an ethereal fluid, multimodified, in an infinite space of perfection.