Pursuit Of Happiness
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This line of the Declaration of Independence implies that happiness is to be chased and achieved through "doing." Rather than describe happiness through the temporary elation of accomplishment--of doing, we describe happiness as a state of being. As happy as you are while pursuing your goals, that is how happy you will be when their attainment fades. We set and attempt goals (pursue happiness) due to the universal desire to create. It is the happiness already within you that unearths the desire for the joy of creativity. You have already chosen your level of happiness. To seek that which you already have is to be blind to what already is. To seek to create positive things is in alignment with universal conciousness or God, is a product of happiness, and is a sustainer of happiness. What if the "pursuit of happiness" is a deceptive phrase coined by those who imagined a great empire built upon the pursuit by the many, of a future feeling that can only be experienced in the present? To pursue happiness is to assume you don't have it. Pursuing happiness is to use the present as a tool for achieving an imaginary future feeling rather than using it to experience an actual feeling of joy, love, creativity, of the very happiness that can only be felt in the now. To feel enthusiasm about a goal is to experience even more happiness than can be felt through its achievement. To feel this excitement, even if the goal fizzles out, is to feel true happiness, right now. Setting worldly goals is a good and healthy practice. Set them not for the attainment of happiness but for a sense of creative accomplishment through the betterment of the human or universal condition--a type of happiness that cannot be achieved any other way.
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