What You Need to Be Happy

When we are in the middle of friends and family and are having a great gathering time, we feel happy. When everything runs well and life looks in order, we feel happy. When someone we love seems to love us back as much as we need, we feel happy. But have we ever really considered the right thing to decide that we are happy? Are we really happy or maybe we just thinking that we are happy? So, what is the truth, we are happy or we think that we are happy?
To answer that question, we have to know the real definition of happiness first. Happy is the feeling when you don’t worry about anything else; when you just face your life day by day with a feeling of calmness and comfort in your heart. So, in my opinion, happy is not just a periodical state of feeling you have whenever you get what you want or whenever you can laugh with nothing else to worry about. Happiness is much more than that. Happiness is the state of feeling that last forever in your heart. I think we can easily see the difference between the two of them by looking at word “pleased” and “happy”. In Bahasa, the difference is even clearer, we can see it from the difference between “gembira” and “bahagia”.
I do realize that some people say that we do not need to know the meaning to be happy. And they are just died right about that. We can just be a happy person even though we do not know the meaning of being happy, but then we will also do not know that we are happy. So what is the point of being happy if we do not know that we are happy? Just like what is the point of being smart if we do not know it and won’t ever be able to use it? So it is just obvious that we need to be really happy and know it.
The next question appears is, what we need to be happy? Then it will depends on the person themselves, because being happy can have different meaning for different people. However, let’s just be simple and make the general list that will match to anyone of us. So, things people usually need in order to be happy are right here:
• Something to do
Just believe me. We will never be happy as long as we do nothing in this life, because life is here to be filled. Somehow, when you have a single day with nothing to do but sitting on your bed and wondering about odd things, the only kind of feeling you will have is boredom. Just like what I feel now.

• Something to hope
What is your reason for having the next day? That is hope. We will never have the intention to be alive in the next day if we have nothing to hope for that time. People usually want to life because there is something that they hope will happen in the future, something they will wait for.
• Someone to love
Love undoubtedly is something that is able to create happiness in instant. We can have a very bad day, a terrible disease or a broken plan, but we still can be happy every time we remember that there is someone we love.
Happiness is right here in our very own heart .So, the next time we come to a dilemma about whether we are really or not, just take a look to what we have with us and then ask our heart; it will whisper the answer to you.