#happiness memory

There was a book I read. The Pursuit of Happiness. It talks of the many travails that affect happiness. But I’ve always wondered, can happiness be affected? Isn’t happiness a feeling that is despite of everything rather than for the lack of it? Or is that enjoyment?

If somebody asked me today, when was the last time that you were happy, I’d stare. Not because I haven’t been happy, or because I have been, but because I have never taken the time out to acknowledge happiness.

I could very well answer the question of what was the last time I enjoyed myself. I am capable of enjoying myself very often and I exercise that capability to the best of its limits.

But enjoyment has nothing to do with happiness. Enjoyment can be part of the worst of times. You can smile at ironies of life and laugh at the twists of fate. You can joke in tragedy and you can celebrate in desolation