Happy Sunday all!
After that intermittent rain last night (yes, there were moments it totally stopped then rained again), we have finally seen the face of the morning sun. Compared to yesterday, it is still cloudy outside but the rain has finally stopped.
I haven’t attended Sunday mass yet, gonna wait for Josef and Jovy to come home before we catch the evening mass here at the village. My gosh, it started to rain again as I write this.
I’d like to think that happiness is not always measured by one’s success in life. Sometimes we think that successful people are happy but deep inside they’re not. You could be smiling, shaking hands with people you meet, showing a happy face for others to see but deep within, you are alone in your thoughts, sometimes ugly, sometimes suicidal. What makes people commit that one act of ending their lives despite their success? What makes them think of suicide and do it? What makes them so unhappy that they have to do that drastic measure of taking life into their hands?
You’ve heard of Kate Spade ending her life one Tuesday morning then a few days later Anthony Bourdain followed suit. Time and again I would hear of Kate Spade and her creations (not even dreamed of even seeing her creative designs in my orbit) but Anthony Bourdain was famous even here in our country. He has visited the Philippines several times, trying on our exotic food like balut and our to die for lechon. He even shared a glass of halo-halo in a slum area in Tondo. Most posts at Facebook are about his life, how he struggled to study culinary arts in his early years. A celebrity chef, traveler and a story-teller.
Beneath the success and happiness may be a deep depression for both. Do we really understand what depression is and what depression means? I don’t. All I know is that success in life does not always makes you happy. My oncologist a few years ago emphasized that one of the major causes of cancer, any cancer at that is stress, aside of course from genes. I believe so. When you are stressed, your body shows signs of weakness too physically. You get that gargantuan headaches and you think it is a normal way of life. You get those joints and muscles pains and you think they’re just part of growing old. Sometimes we ignore and procrastinate until it is too late.
Let’s learn to value life every day. Let’s learn to be happy in the true sense of the word. Even little things could make us smile and be happy. Albert Camus said it so well and I quote: “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
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