Fat Buddha Goose Chase

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Good morning, The Wonderfell Way.

Happy. \O/

Hello again. O/

It's time to talk happiness.

Here we go.

On with our show...

Everybody aims for it, wants it, looks for it, dreams about it... what is it?

What is happiness?

Where is it? What aisle in the grocery store is happy located in?

Do you know?

If you don't know what something is how do you know if you have it?

Some people chase happiness their whole life and have no definition for it.

They might already be happy.

How would they know?

"I know it when I feel it."
- Most People

Good.

Next time you do please take notes and share with the rest of us.

I start with OK when I start to think about happiness.

Which leads me to a word we don't use enough: Glad.

Aware you're okay and knowing it's a good thing, that's glad.

Glad is also the name of a company that makes trash bags.

This is not without irony or utility.

Got junk in your emotional life?

Toss it in a bag of Glad to be alive, then toss that bag out.

You'll be glad you did.

Glad is a sense that life, for you, is better because something happened.

It's tangible.

Happiness is a Fat Buddha Goose Chase.

One of those so important words that have so many different ways to understand they've almost lost meaning.

Words we cling to without common definition or understanding for other than we don't share the same understanding of them.

So important words like happiness, like love, like God.

So misunderstood and vague that we often mash the three together to compound our misunderstanding into a joyful 'Wow none of us knows what anything actually means and boy doesn't it feel good,' experience.

"Find Love, find Happiness... God is Love..."

Huh?

The three most important words to have a working definition for to have a good life, and we jumble-mash them together.

The intent of this post isn't to discuss the existence of God, only to say you best have some idea of your ideas on Him if you want to have a good life.

Which brings us back to having some idea of what happiness is if we want to have a good life.

Confused yet?

Happily so?

There's a feeling, a presence, an awareness in moments that Life is worth living for moments like 'this'.

Those this moments are happiness at work. I don't believe they're sustainable. If happiness was something we could experience it non-stop, we would have to call it just plain ol' OK.

Everything else would be a disruption.

But happy is always better than OK.

Save happiness for moments.

For me glad to be OK is the best sustainable way of living.

That's the best I've come to how to define a good life: Days spent glad to be okay with occasional feelings of happiness.

A moment spent in a burst of joy is a happy moment.

Abe for no reason at all I can measure, walks out in the yard, spots a squeak toy, and runs! for it, picks it up in his mouth, and runs! in circles with it, tossing it, catching it, stops, drops the toy, looks at me, pants, grabs the toy again and runs! and runs! and runs!

Happiness defined.

Take care, consider what happiness looks like to you, be glad you can, and make wonderful your wonderful day.