Happiness? Overrated? Maybe not. What do you do or think about in order to make yourself happy? Gleeful? Joyous. Gay. Ecstatic. Feeling emotionally and physically satisfied? Better than satisfied? Incredibly so?
Is there a taste in your mouth from lunchtime that could be changed to become a better taste? Pop a gumdrop or M&M into your mouth, an almond? If it is sweets that you crave, or salt, then indulge, but just a taste yes, not an overload, a tip on your tongue, tipsiness.
Are your fingers craving smoothness, velvet, silk, an all cotton blouse? A pair of shoes of the exact correct fit on your feet, house slippers, shoes that caress your foot bottoms, sides, and tops, ankles, walking barefoot on a sandy shore to want to be swimming, waves that come in with the tide, each wave to love you.
Waters that are pure, waters that clean upon immediate contact, no soap. A rainfall? A snowfall? Dewy grass, frostiness, autumn trees' dead leaves, catch them grab them out of the sky, jump into a pile of leaves, hear them crackling!
What sounds make you happy? Sounds of silence? Yes. Soft sounds of a kitten purring? Sounds of soft shoes tapping on a wooden floor, gently sounds of water pouring from your tap? Water that is pure, drinkable, satiates your thirst. Sounds of dripping.
Turn on the radio, sounds of music, opera, classical music, rock, rock n' roll, guitars, violins, accordions, sounds of people laughing, children laughing, parents content. Sounds of dogs barking as they eat their sweet treat! Barking for more, giving them more! Teaching a dog a trick, him rewarded.
Holidays? Do you love holidays? Passover, Easter, Purim, Rosh Hodesh, Christmas, Hanukkah, always another holiday on our calendars, lunar and solar calendars, more and more to celebrate. Cooking your favorite holiday foods. Throwing another house party.
Jewelry? Gorgeousness of gems wrangled upon your wrists, leg ankles, necks with new necklaces. Rings wound upon your fingers, feelingly. Sparkling sea greens, sapphire throne blues. Silver and gold. Real gold, not an imitation! Safes with combinations, locks with keys, safety, security, prosperity of assets. Crystal? Loads of shelves and more shelves with more decorations. Sparkling glass. Glass as prisms, stained glass of all colors, Carnival glass of all shapes. Do colors make you happy? Which colors? Yellow?
Looking in your environment for the location of all that is beautiful, all that is pleasing. Sounds from which to dance, to tap your feet. To enlarge your eyes as the sounds get louder and more wonderful by the moment!
A best friend? All your friends? Your acquaintances? Your family members? Distant cousins? People who go to your religious affiliation? Church or Temple. A stranger on the sidewalk as you pass him you smile and nod and he returns your happiness with reciprocation. His kids say "hi!" A children's playground in a public city park as their destination. Flowers in this park.
Everywhere anywhere something pleasing to see, to smell, flowers, incense in the pollen mingling with the wind, breathing it in and loving its aroma! To remember to put on perfume in the morning. A dab on each wrist. Wonderful breezes of colognes that tickle your nostrils!
Bees going from blossom to blossom, new leaves new flowers. Honey, real bees' honey like date honey, licking it from your fingertips. A spoonful of chocolate to stir in cookie batter, taste and smell it. Chocolate covered strawberries flipped up into a wide opened mouth!
Does all this make you happy? Not to be at a loss of happiness? To perform a mitzvoth, a deed of loving-kindness to achieve instant happiness causing someone else to be happy too.
Feeding the birds? Feeding a newborn infant, a breastfed infant? Helping your elderly mother or/and father to walk holding your arms not needing their canes.
A cup of coffee? A shot of Scotch? Vodka. Mixed drinks. A Bloody Mary? Not to bleed blood, but to drink deliciousness, a drop on one's tongue, instantly to smile a smile of happiness.
Speaking words of pureness, words you remember reading in your Torah or Bible. Clean words, clean mouth, clean teeth, hands cleaned, washed, clean clothing, clean, clean, clean! Does cleanness make you happy?
It's great to be happy!! Even to be happy when we do not have a concrete reason! Turning a smile of upward lip lines into laughter, jolliness, even goofiness. To love happiness and thank Gd for His efforts in providing you with this happiness.
To share your happiness with others.
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