A Potion for Happiness

Happiness is just a word with vastly different meanings. People will feel this strong emotion of being satisfied, a positive feeling that boosts your mood and good vibes. You'll find yourself smiling, laughing, and sharing a good time with your friends, you're feeling happy. When someone buys you something that you want, consume the food of your taste, travel to places you dreamed about, happiness will follow.

There's a lot of explanations, quotations, sayings, and words for happiness, you can search them on the webs. But have you ever asked yourself what's happiness for you?

It was a rainy day when I asked my eldest son a simple question.

What makes you happy my dear?

He looked at me straight in the eyes and hugged me tightly.

“You mama.. and papa.. and baby brother,” he replied.

I am stunned when I heard those words coming from a four-year-old boy. It wasn't my expected answer from him.

So, it made me think that happiness is also about contentment or satisfaction in life too. There are instances where I saw people ruined their own lives because of not being contented. Being happy only to have something in their pockets, but when that pocket was emptied, they'll turn into a whole different person. Money can't buy you happiness, well, that's true it can offer only temporary happiness, isn't permanent.

But who am I to tell you what happiness truly is. It still depends on how you see happiness in life. We have our viewpoints to be respected. But let me share with you a fun recipe, a potion that's undeniable that can make someone happy. So let's try this potion together and see for yourself that it truly works.

A Potion for Happiness

Heaping cups of Patience

Patience is a virtue and yes, you'll need the patience to find true happiness. Put patience in everything you do, it will help you to understand better, purify and see things clearer, that there's always a perfect time for everything. Patience will help you to ease tension in life in relationships, you'll have a willingness to listen and avoiding seeing things in a perfectionist way. Satisfaction is guaranteed to those who have practiced patience in their lives and will lead you in learning to appreciate things, small or big. So don't forget to add this ingredient to this potion, for sure inner peace will be achieved too.

Heartful of Love

If love is present in your heart, happiness will soon arise. No doubt that if you have with you a network of loving people who support you will make you more resilient and happy too. Loving yourself, loving someone, or loving your passions and goals will surely give you a bunch of happiness. Being in a healthy relationship with somebody or with your dreams will lead you to a more joyous and wonderful state of mind. Let the love in your heart arise, and bless yourself and the others with joys.

Handsful of Generosity

There is joy in giving, sharing, and showing kindness. Just like in my recent article about the Good Samaritans I've met. There are only a few who have pure intentions in life with a golden heart. There's always a connection between happiness and selfless acts. Have you ever helped someone you know or even some strangers before? After you have shared something with them, do you feel delighted? It's happiness that appears in your heart. That kind of happiness is something personal that only can be felt by giving out without expecting anything in return. It's also a matter of satisfaction about the kindness you've shown that will give you a healthy mental state. That's why there's an old saying, which passed through years, “It's better to give than to receive.” You can always start today, you don't have to give and spread your money just to be generous, give out some love, kindness selflessly and happiness is guaranteed.

A Dash of Laughter

A day without laughter is a day wasted. Though you're busy reaching and achieving your goals you don't have to take them too seriously. Have a dash of laughter a day, have good laughs to share with somebody. Undoubtedly, laughter a day will make your heart and mind healthy. Laughing with friends, with your family even at a simple dinner will not only strengthen your bonds but will surely give you a fulfilling feeling of joy and pleasure. You can always have a good laugh, find something or someone to laugh with, not to laugh at. To give you more ideas you can read this article I made, A Day with Good Laughs, cheers!

A head full of Understanding

Always have a head full of understanding in your daily dose. For you to understand deeper happiness, you need to acknowledge and understand better first the things around you and yourself. Having a better understanding of things in. your daily life will certainly give you the benefit of being satisfied and be patient. If you have more understanding of someone, you'll less judge someone else's life, and acknowledge that everyone has their own stories to tell. It will also let you acknowledge others and your mistakes and believe that blunders and errors are inevitable in life.

Add Plenty of Faith

Faith should be present in us to live a brighter life. It helps us go through tough times during dark days, having confidence and trust in the things we hope for that don't happen yet. Faith is just more than a wish but it's closer to a belief, believing something within our hearts that goes beyond our conscious minds. Faith gives us freedom, a freedom that we can only attain for ourselves.

Sprinkle of Gratitude

You can never be happy and content if you don't have a grateful heart. Gratitude is one of the most powerful tools we can have to live a joyful journey. Always look back from where you came from, who has helped you, who was there when you needed someone beside you through tough times. There's a lot of ways to find gratitude in your life, all you need is to acknowledge it. Saying thank you to someone for making you hopeful will left you happiness within your reach. If you're grateful enough you'll find satisfaction, enjoyment, and a more valuable meaning in life. You can always begin being thankful for yourself, for not quitting struggles and hardships. Be appreciative of all the blessings you have received, no matter how big or small it is, always be thankful.

Just mix well the ingredients for this dose, apply it with yourself, and don't forget to serve this mixture to everyone you meet. Spread this potion throughout a lifetime, be the happiness of someone else.

I'm just a nobody and no right to tell you what to do to be happy, but I'm here as a friend sharing this wonderful and harmless recipe. I'm savoring it and applying these to lessen my boredom and stress. I just want you to be happy too. You can always try this potion, I promise you it will cost no fees and harm.

Written by: @eommaZel 🥀