It's funny how freedom has so little to do with the actual content of your experience, but everything to do with how you perceive yourself. Happiness is absolutely a state of mind!
Happiness is truly a state of mind and doesn't have to do with what one has acquired for a period of time, If one chooses to be happy, one will remain happy.
I really do enjoy reading your post. Well done @nuthman
Thanks! I was just thinking about how happiness is kind of the default state of humans. Over time we build up conditioning such as opinions and concepts of good and bad which create a thick filter on top of the happiness. So if that is truly the case, then the solution is to scrape off those layers leaving the juicy delicious happiness exposed. Lol! Sounds very Buddhist to me.
This is a fact.
And this is what makes people unhappy the opinions and concepts of good and bad which have been built over time. We need to create this definition of happiness ourselves Nd just be happy.
Yep, accepting what is and understanding that happiness does not exist in the future, or has disappeared into the past; but quite literally can only exist in this very moment.