Happiness TWO

It is common for people to feel happiest when they are in love. Is it therefore safe to conclude that happiness is love? Or that love is happiness?

I don't have an answer. All I know is that in being in love, there are a lot of heart aches as well. For most, it could cause the most turmoil, the most uncertainty, elicit the greatest fears, shake the most nerves and sometimes, create the most sublime feeling of hollowness ... of emptiness... of needing... insatiable need...

But if it is... then why do we hang on to love lost? why do we hang on to the hope that true love will come by?

No, I don't have that one either. All I know is that despite feeling parched, it also brings us to an oasis of generosity... of giving... of wanting to be emptied out towards another...

So, is there happiness in the state of loving?

And you thought I'd have an answer to that one, huh? Happiness should not be boxed, measured, defined, nor should it be treated as an absolute. It is not part of the elements... it is not there because of love, nor do we loose it when we don't have love.

It is there when we do not have an answer.

It is when you don't know how one person, similar to others in most respect, can make us feel... different.

It is when you don't know how a certain memory puts a smile on your face and giggle in your bones.

It is when you don't know how one thing leads to another, how one place leads you to an experience and when one truth suddenly completes you.

It is when nothing is being said and yet all of life's questions are being answered.

Happiness is neither an experience or a feeling... it is .... :)