Happiness; we are all trying to either hold onto, increase or change it but in the end we fail.
These days positivity is very thinly spread in our daily lives and we have to find solace in the most miniscule things to make up for the general lack of happiness we have grown accustomed to. The funny picture you get in an email, the movies you watch and the parties you attend takes a bit off the edge but ultimately we have grown to be unhappy people. Why you ask? Because we depend on others to give us happiness instead of creating it for ourselves.
Buddy is a simple dog, not simple in the sense of being dumb; far from it but simple in that he creates his own happiness on a daily basis. Nobody to play with when I’m at work? He throws his own ball. Feeling lonely? He barks at the people walking past. We as humans need to understand that we can’t rely on anybody for happiness, we have to create it and in order to do that we have to make the choice to say: “Hey, it could be worse”
Last week my girlfriend and I watched a television show where the host asked her guests if they were a dreamer or a realist and together we decided in order to survive these days you have to dream a little more than facing the harsh realities of our lives in SA currently. Our currency is falling faster than our happiness levels and to say that the country is being run into the ground is an understatement. Look I’m not a cynical man, but I can see the reality around me every day. We are surrounded by a doomsday message that is on replay and we are so tired of this message.
Looking at Buddy I realise how happy he is, so content with the world and his place in it. He lives a simple life: Eat, sleep and repeat. We complicate our lives so much by turning into donkeys and carrying all the stress and burden on our shoulders mostly because we feel we have to, other times because we don’t have a choice but in the end we will always have the choice to feel positive about our circumstances or to just nonchalantly brush it off and keep on keeping on.
As Buddy is playing with his friend a (much larger) Labrador he never backs down and pounces without hesitation. So I decided to be like Buddy; pick my fights and load to carry wisely because the size of the dog doesn’t determine the end result.
