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What Is Happiness?
What is happiness? What,
Do tell, does it mean to be happy?
Chemicals such as dopamine, endorphines,
Serotonin and oxytocin are what I call,
Happy Chemicals. But what is happiness?
Is happiness the expression of
Joy you feel when you clear a
Game level? Is it getting something
You've always wanted since, like,
Forever?
Or maybe it's falling in love with
Yourself, for your flaws, insecurities.
Imprefections and the very color of your
Eyes? What about your partner's eyes?
When you see them, are you happy?
Are you in love, is this
Happiness?
Or is it the joy of a mama holding
Her baby for the
First time after Long Hours In Pain?
When Mama holds her baby, the world
Stops just for a second to Rejoyce
With Mama and her baby before it moves
On. Is this happiness?
What about when a vetern comes home
And holds their little ones for the first times
In Days, Weeks, Months, Years.
Do they feel happiness, is this what it means
To be happy?
When the sky is
Bright and saturated with
Colors and nothing else matters
But you and the ones you
Love? Is this happiness?
Or is it just the chemicals within
Our brains in responce to
Getting what we want?
I think the formula for Happiness is
Love + Person = Happiness
Yes, I think this is Happiness.
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I am DoctorMarieTheMuse and I have 4 sisters (3 by blood and 1 through Demostic Partnership) and 1 brother. I live in California and a dog named Mason who loves us and doesn't like anyone else at first. I also love books.