Here is a question that God asked me after watching an anime that explored the same thing. “If you had one wish for happiness, what would it be for?” Let me rephrase that for you, ‘What one thing do you place your happiness in?’ the thing that once you get you’d be happy. I’m referring to happiness in the sense that once you get that one thing you’re set, that if nothing else went right you’d look to that thing and be happy, that if you were to die today you’d die happy. It’s one of those questions that if you answered honestly you don’t want to answer, that you fear to know what your answer is because once you say it you realize how self centered you really are, that the answer is rarely for anyone else but me. We can blame the world for instilling in us the culture of ‘me first’ that the culture tells us that if you had $100 million dollars that you’d be happy, that if you famous that you’d be happy, that if you had the girl/guy of your dreams that you’d be happy, or that position of power, or that you were the best in something. This is the answer for some people.
All these things are good, but if that’s the one thing you are waiting to come along to be happy then we need to take a long hard look at ourselves and rethink this thing through. Life is too short to be chasing these meaningless things, that all can be lost in an instant.
