What is happiness? Is it a sense of fulfillment? Is it an merely an unobtainable goal? Is happiness only found in making others happy? I am so bothered by a religion that teaches that happiness is something that can't truly be known until one is dead. What a crock of ****! Why create such a beautiful world and fill it with so many things that can bring joy, then deny all access to it? Is this really the kind of behavior indicative of a benevolent god? If god created the world and saw that it was good, why is it such a horrible thing to enjoy it? The bible says not to seek happiness in the things of this world; that one shouldn't live for this life, but for the next one. I see no reason not to find happiness in my pursuits and hard work. I see no evidence for another life. The only life I see is this one I'm in right now. If one can only know happiness through sacrifice, let's all just give ourselves into slavery. Or maybe we should all just kill ourselves and get on with this next life.
I want to believe in a god that is benevolent and merciful and truly cares about us. All I see is a god of cruelty, revenge and sadism. God supposedly created all things. God is supposedly perfect, all knowing, all seeing, and all powerful. Yet he created evil. What kind of god creates all the wonders of this world and says, "I created everything perfect and now I'm going to **** it up and throw in some imperfection."? What kind of parent would choose to give their child an imperfect life if they had it in their power to give them a perfect one?
One doesn't know when they are happy unless they have felt unhappiness. This though is just an optimistic way of looking at disappointment and all things that cause unhappiness. Sure maybe happiness is more appreciated because of unhappiness, but couldn't an all knowing creator devise a method where happiness is not dependent on unhappiness. I have no time for a religion that teaches that the only means of achieving happiness is giving up on any sense of personal happiness and fulfillment and seek only to make others happy. I believe helping others can lead to a sense of happiness, but I find it hard to believe that one can have any sense of how to make others happy if they do not themselves know happiness.
I see no issue with seeking personal fulfillment and happiness or helping to make others happy. Seeking only your own happiness though, will ultimately lead to disappointment, but seeking only to make others happy and never yourself, will also lead to disappointment. The real key to happiness, I believe, is to find a balance between your own happiness and and those of others.

what i took it to mean about the part in not to find happness in things of this world is u need to be happy witin u not because of a car or money those things fade we are eturnal






So familiar
And overwhelmingly warm
This one, this form I hold now
Embracing you, this reality here
This one, this form I hold now
So wide-eyed and hopeful
Wide-eyed and hopefully wild

We barely remember
What came before this precious moment
Choosing to be here
Right now
Hold on, stay inside

This body holding me
Reminding me that I am not alone in
This body makes me feel
Eternal, all this pain is an illusion

We barely remember who or what came before this precious moment,
We are Choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside...
This holy reality, this holy experience. Choosing to be here in...

This body. This body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion.

Alive

This holy reality, in this holy experience. Choosing to be here in...

This body. This body holding me. Be my reminder here that I am not alone in
This body, this body holding me, feeling eternal all this pain is an illusion...
Of what it means to be alive

Swirling round with this familiar parable.
Spinning, weaving round each new experience.
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this
chance to be alive and breathing
chance to be alive and breathing.

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality.
Embrace this moment. Remember. we are eternal.
all this pain is an illusion.




these songs are parabola and parabol by tool

I like your piece, but I think my understanding of it could go in several different directions.

Happiness is getting an email from the one who can open your heart with a word.