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Happiness
For this challenge, I want you to write about happiness! Any form, only limitation is that I want this to be positive. It is easy to look at all the darkness and craziness of our world and I want to read about the good side:) Tag me!
Ended November 27, 2020 • 16 Entries • Created by Margot
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Happiness
For this challenge, I want you to write about happiness! Any form, only limitation is that I want this to be positive. It is easy to look at all the darkness and craziness of our world and I want to read about the good side:) Tag me!
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GLD
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What is Happiness?

What is it

This thing they call happiness?

Is it the laughter

Followed by a joke?

Is it the smile cracked

After a friendly word?

Is it the giggle

At somebody else's amusing plight?

What is happiness?

Sure, it's a state of being

A state of being happy

But, how can you be happy?

The recipe is really simple

There is not much to it

Some may admit

To you

Here is my definition

Here are my thoughts:

Happiness is that feeling

That warm feeling inside

When you have a smile on your face

That smile you just can't hide

It's happiness when you sing a tune

Without even understanding why

It's happiness when you take a run

For sheer pleasure, no other reason why

It's happiness when you are content

With what you have and deserve

It's happiness when you sing along

To life's tune and every word

When you sing along without contempt

Just feeling blessed to be alive

Realizing that you are special

And that there is no need to hide

It's happiness

When you are blessed

With family

And true friends

It's happiness when

You can't complain

Because no matter the struggles

You still have a huge gain

A huge gain in reasons for smiling

A huge gain in reasons for not crying

Reasons for laughing out loud

Reasons for living, making such a big and lively sound

It's when you are a blessing

To those people around you

That you feel that happiness

In your heart; let it be to astound you

Look for reasons to be helpful

To be a blessing and not a curse

That's when you'll find that true happiness

Is found in love, and not hurt.

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Happiness
For this challenge, I want you to write about happiness! Any form, only limitation is that I want this to be positive. It is easy to look at all the darkness and craziness of our world and I want to read about the good side:) Tag me!
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thisisit
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Lightning in a Bottle

Several summers ago I took a bus to Portland from my hometown.

Of course, the word ‘bus’ evokes a picture of the many different types of people riding it: the old lady with her oversized handbag, the young teenagers laughing too loudly, etc. This particular bus trip took place overnight. At dawn, we approached Portland.

As the sun made strides through the open window, the man across from me - not directly across but one seat up and over - started speaking to me. He turned his whole body around in order to do this. He wanted to know where I got my hat. He seemed nervous, in the category of bus-goer who usually keeps their head down, out of sight. The kind of person you will never really know.

After many volleys back and forth of conversation later, I ask about a tattoo peeking out from under his sweatshirt sleeve.

What is that of?

He lifts the sleeve to reveal a chemical structure. This, he said, is dopamine.

The hairs on my arm stood up. I felt that this man had experienced a great amount of pain, as cavalier as he may seem. I too had left permanent scars on myself from pain. But this? This wasn’t a scar: it was like lightning in a bottle. It was magnificent.

He traced the structure delicately and explained each piece: how it all fit together. How it worked. How and why we feel happiness.

Structurally, we all have this neurotransmitter.

In my short life, I had never seen this. It seemed brazen. A testament to the pursuit of happiness, a statement. Not: I will be happy. No.

I WILL know happiness.

I don’t remember anything else about him, or that bus ride. I also don’t need to go further, and describe the nights I spent up after that, researching how to also have that tattooed onto my own arm. The rawness of that chemistry - that’s real happiness. It doesn’t get more real than chemical bonds, nerve cells and the communication of pleasure.

Who knows what that man went through to have that permanently be a part of his arm. Whenever he looks down, for the rest of this life - boom. Happiness. Outstretched arm to greet someone? May they also know happiness.

I certainly felt it.

It seemed deep. And to this day, when I think of happiness, I think of sunshine and ink, both illuminated and scientific.

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Happiness
For this challenge, I want you to write about happiness! Any form, only limitation is that I want this to be positive. It is easy to look at all the darkness and craziness of our world and I want to read about the good side:) Tag me!
StormAtSea
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The quest for happiness

I recently heard a quote ‘The quest for happiness ends within yourself.’ Does it really? Does it not get impacted by say, a nasty spouse, a manipulative boss, a work-obsessed parent, a sick sibling? Can I be happy when surrounded by unhappiness? While I’m not a fan of hymns, ‘No man is an island’ isn’t exactly untrue.

And yet, I have come to believe that one can be happy only when one is determined to be. Happiness isn’t meant to be. As the prompt introduction says, its easy to be unhappy. But make just one resolve – Nobody but I can dictate my happiness. And see where it takes you!

Nobody’s mood can affect mine, nobody’s bad behaviour can determine mine. Not others but I will determine if I am loved. I will decide how my day will go, how happy I am at the end of the day. And never mind the world.

And yes, my happiness also includes an ice-cream in the heat (and in the cold), chocolate preferably with a liquid centre and a good book.

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Happiness
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dctezcan
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Happiness

Babies laughing

puppies leaping

sun rising

rays shimmering

on waves rolling

breezes blowing

colorful leaves fluttering

rain falling

puddle jumping

cold-day cuddling

hand holding

arm-in-arm walking

silly dancing

dumb joke telling

belly laughing

cooking, baking

meal making

sports watching

card playing

porch sitting

bird watching

garden growing

snowman building

poem writing

story typing

oil painting

music tickling

my ears listening

your fingers strumming

lips smiling

hearts beating

spoon sleeping.

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Happiness
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Rosemandle
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Peace

I sit

The rain outside

A new book in my hands

My hot chocolate warming me inside

A blanket round my shoulders

The quiet of the house

I smile

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Happiness
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jurknee27
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joy

a small kiss on the forehead

being held in his strong arms

a soft smooch on the lips

i could get used to this

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ladyfrocket
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today

I went outside to smell the roses today. The soft petals delicately kissing my fingers as I moved along them. It was the kindest feeling in the world. Above me millions of miles away, the warmth of the ball of energy that we call the sun touching my neck. I was grateful to be there today, to expierence what I didn’t yesterday. Today was a new day and each day has new beginnings, this is what happiness is. The chance to be better today than yesterday.

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Happiness
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JJtheJetPlane
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Happiness for me is a beautiful sunny day,

clouds rest in the sky

and the birds sing about all that is good.

happiness for me is talking to my best friend

who is my anchor,

who is my guiding light,

who keeps me sane in these crazy times.

happiness for me is playing with my bird

who always knows how to make me laugh,

who loves to cuddle against my chin,

who is my emotional support.

happiness for me is playing my saxophone,

when im in the zone, everything is second nature to me.

happiness for me is figure skating,

feeling each edge as I work on my skills,

feeling myself glide across the ice.

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Happiness
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MariAntoinette
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Happiness be smol but grait

Happiness is conjured by the little things that gather into moments. Those little things, for me, are often in the forms of food and words.

Food is one of the highest natural pleasures... along with one I’m not going to specifically mention (;

I like to cook food, eat food, serve food, think about food, talk about food and write about food. I. Like. Food. Nothing more to it.

Words are almost my literal best friend... we even have the occasional fights. I like to write. I like to think. I like to talk. I like to hear myself talk(funny thing is I don’t like my voice). I like to sing(I dropped out of choir 2 years ago. I do not regret.) I do not like word games though(partly because I’m terrible at them).

And when you talk or listen to audiobooks while making food, or eat food when you’re supposed to be talking, that my friends, is the reason my parents think I am antisocial.

Thank you, thank you. *bows* *waves*

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Happiness
For this challenge, I want you to write about happiness! Any form, only limitation is that I want this to be positive. It is easy to look at all the darkness and craziness of our world and I want to read about the good side:) Tag me!
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RoseMcCoy
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“happiness”

Yes, it’s hard to reach. For some, nearly impossible. But have you ever splayed yourself out beneath a window pouring sunlight? Have you ever had a dog come to you in a room full of people? Have you ever found the perfect word, the perfect song or story or image, to articulate completely what you’re feeling? Has anyone ever gifted you with their touch, maybe a smiling child or shy date, leaving a gentle buzz where they did? Have you ever smelled the scent of flowers? Ever tasted other cultures from a food cart? Ever been told you are loved, seen, appreciated, accepted? If yes, congratulations—you’ve known happiness. If not—set your phone down, sit up straight, and think. Sometimes memories can be covered in dust or stacked forgotten in boxes, but given only a minute, your heart and mind will recover them. And in the meantime, understand that happiness isn’t the End Goal: it’s that temporary flicker, that fleeting feeling we’re all blessed with from time to time, and it occurs in the small moments, the kind gestures, the sweet words falling from the mouths of others. Whoever turned happiness into something that must be scratched off a to-do list? I don’t know, but I do know this: it’s never too late to reclaim it. So tell me; what is happiness to you?

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