Look around; happiness is trying to catch you.
We've all known people who, to us, appeared to have some pretty wonderful people and things in their lives. Yet they weren't able to see those people or things and be happy. The reasons are numerous: too busy eking out a living or amassing wealth; too focused on their expectations and how they didn't turn out just the way they "should" have; too unhappy with themselves to be happy with what they have; the list could go on and on.
My own father was one of those people. A highly talented and capable man, he was never really happy (or if he was, he hid it) and couldn't look around to see what he had. Happiness tried to catch him all his life, but he just wouldn't be caught.
I've been that way, too, at times. I've been so focused on making a difference in my work, or trying to earn more money, get more things, go more places, and anything else you can use to finish this sentence, that I've not looked around to see the happiness that was available.
How about you? What are you so focused on that you're unable to see the happiness you need and want? What expectations aren't turning out the way you'd hoped?
What if we just let go of our need to have expectations be fulfilled exactly the way we plan them? What if we just let happiness catch us?
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