Earth

Happiness is extracted from banal moments and woven into experience. Happiness exists wherever it is chosen to be seen, felt. It lives in the world’s exquisiteness; in individual senses; in the depth of feeling; the grandeur of emotion; the simplicity of everyday and the realisation that everything means nothing, and the insignificant is paramount, all at once. Happiness lies everywhere or it can’t be found at all. That is the reason for which it sends no smoke signals, for we will open our doors to it when we are ready and no sooner. It comes willingly when the experiencer themselves is willing, to embrace their Now, to how their Present Moment embeds itself into their Being, their perception and the stories that they will tell themselves and others about this glorious or infamous Now. So, here, I know that happiness exists. So I choose to let its embrace into my feeling. To spread its wings through my spine and place me at the centre of this moment. Bliss lies not in the extraordinary, but in the everyday. Despair can be found in wonder; paradise can be sought in gloom.