"Happiness is an elusive stranger that we all chase"

When we were little kids, happiness was doing things for our parent and being given compliments and sweet treats by our parent. Over our years of growing up, we realized that happiness is a part of life that all of us want to catch up with and hold it close to our hearts. Happiness is an emotion that constanlty eludes us sometimes no matter how much we want to seize it but the elusive happiness manages to slip through our fingers yet again. The most important thing is to look for it within ourselves, before we can find it outside ourselves. If we can love ourselves and be content with who we are, then we can recieve and except love and happiness from someone else.

The constant search for happiness is like looking for a diamond in the rough or a needle in a haystack, but we want it so badly that we keep searching and looking for the only thing to satisfy us and make us whole. Happiness is finding someone that will genuinely love us for who we are, accept us for our misgivens; and forgive us our silly mistakes in life.

We are all in search of this elusive stranger call happiness and if by chance we're blessed to find it, lets live our lives with thanksgiving and praises of the joy we have found.

Benny Faye Douglass