Expectation (Part II): Happiness

People say they want to be happy in their lives. I say ‘me too,’ I also want happiness in my life. Why’s that? Simple answer: if we don’t want to be happy, so what do we want? We want to die or cry every day? Naturally, lives can not change. We live with both happiness and sadness. It is a constraint with incontestable variables. No need to expect happiness, if you have never faced sadness. Once again, we expect to be happy for all along the way of our lives. Can we get that?

Every day, I told myself and some of people who know me that unless you sit on the normal chair; you will never ever know how comfortable the sofa is. In this world, if there is no sadness without happiness and there is also no happiness without sadness. When I was bored with my job, I also expect to do something to be more exciting afterward, for example going to have the Chinese noodle with my friend or going to see my girl friend. During the time when I was sad about my job, I can find happiness afterward. Let’s see! Do you know who pay for my happiness? My job pays for my happiness. So, it means my sadness pays for my happiness.

We have talked a lot about the happiness. However, we have not known it meaning yet. In this context, ‘happiness’ came from the word ‘happy,’ which refers to the feeling or showing pleasure, contentment, or joy. We feel ease after we have done something, it means we are happy with what we have done. Happiness can be much larger than that in accordance with the different terms of references. To the family, happiness can be the feeling of husband and wife while they are able to live with each other from the beginning until the end of life. To friend, happiness can get from having a good friend. To us, happiness is every good thing you have such as family, friends, love, and that sort of things. Therefore, if we try to break down the happiness of a person, there must be the integration of family-happiness, friend-happiness, love-happiness, self-happiness, and so forth.

The only great expectation of every body in their entire lives is happiness. We were born, we study, we work, we get married, we raise our children, and we die because of this only thing: happiness. During this Christmas, I really suggest all of you to watch one movie, named ‘Home Alone 3: Lost in New York.’ You will be able to find out the real meaning of this word. In the movie, there was a lady (I forgot her name) who looked so sad every day because there was a man who broke her promise not to come to marry her. She lost her mind after 20 years of waiting. At last, she decided not to believe any bodies else in the rest of her life. She hided herself with pigeons and she kept them as her friends. Kevin was a clever boy. He was getting lost in New York alone because of the missing fly in Paris. When he first met a woman, he was yelling and screaming of fear at her. At the moment after, he was rethinking and decided to have a chat with her. She told Kevin the story and Kevin turned to feel so sorry about her and he also hoped that one day he would be one person that she could trust. How could he make her believe in what he had said?

During the Christmas Eve, Kevin had gone into a shop that sold a lot of things for Christmas. In the shop, there had also a box of collecting money for charity. Kevin had spent some money for that and he had been offered two turtledoves. These two turtledoves were the representation of long-lasting love, belief, and trust. At the end of the movie Kevin gave one of his turtle doves to that lady to show his mind of trust, belief, and love forever. Why don’t you find the couple of turtledoves to give to someone, you love for their great expectation of happiness during this Christmas? Merry Christmas to all of you na!
By Sochheka Ong
Date: 24-Dec-07