02/11/2021
Happiness and Content
What do these emotions truely feel like??
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Truth be told, I am yet to feel the full gravity of these two emotions that often drift in and out of our minds with one other.
But I know for a fact that I have had moments, if not months, of being emerged in a state of happiness that is closely followed by the feeling of Contentment.
The beauty of these two feelings is that they come in all different forms and feelings, produced my many different environments or circumstances.
From experience, these two emotions are only truely felt and appreciated when you have stopped completely.
They can some with a sudden thud, as the bow of your vessel powers over the crest of a wave and into the trough, awakening you from your day dream and brining you back into your environment. But where you may be is quite literally nowhere, and this is a daunting thought. Floating aloft a big blue desert with no life in sight aside from your other fellow sailors. But it’s when you look back out across the horizon, in this new state of realisation…there is nothing out there, no distractions, no other things calling your name, no other place you can be or go. Out of the depth of yourself, just like the ocean, you are overpowered with the feelings of happiness and content. And this alone fills your sails enough to thrust you ever closer to that horizon you are so desperately chasing.
They will sneak up on you when you sitting down for a second, catching your breath and looking out over the vast valley floor below you, knowing in the back of your mind that your only half way up the ridge and still have the final summit. As you gaze up above you to where land meets sky, you are filled with the passion and drive to continue. What is produced from this short couple of second is your rocket fuel…
You are happy and content because there is no other place you can be or you desire to go.
