There’s an eternity between last summer and this one. I am able to cross it in one long step/strut. All it takes is that playlist and it instantly transports me back, one year back. This teleporting technology is not susceptible to reverse engineering, so don’t bother trying.
Transported back, I immediately feel the breeze of cool air of the last year cool summer on my face, the smell of grilled steak on my old patio, accompanied with an unusual beer selection. There I am, Kindle and I, and my afternoon reminiscences and mediations on meaning of life, love, happiness, longevity. I was reading Last Man on Earth by Marry Shelly. Like the title suggests, the book will turn you inside out, no way to bypass it.
Maybe it was a hard read for the summer, harsh topic to absorb, even if it is a beautifully written story, oh so believable. Maybe my musical selection was too emotional, maybe I travelled too much, maybe I worked too hard, and maybe I crossed too many railroad tracks…
Whatever it was, it awoke me from sleep. And I haven’t been back since.
In a way, all we are is randomized. Decades merge into one, today same as yesterday, same as year before. Pictures are blurred. But our mind enters clarity from time to time. If it happens that a single moment of clarity hits a randomization that brings back centuries old philosophical questions, then for a second you think you got it. That momentarily flash of light is enough to illuminate your whole life and that’s your signal. No, not from imaginary higher being, sorry to disappoint you; it’s that clarity that senses it’s a moment in life that matters, not life as a whole.
Thus begins my new philosophy. I didn't invent it. No one did. It always existed. It’s eternal.
Happiness is a moment. The longer you’re able to hold on to that moment, the longer you’re happy. The more you allow external distractions to interfere with the moment, the less chance for happiness you have. Happiness is hidden in every single day; we just never bother to notice it. We’re too busy fussing about things in a day that annoy us to see it.
If you stop and remove everything but happy moments from a single day, you are left with pure happiness. Yes, in every day. In every single day in your life. And I have scientific proof for you skeptics.
