I'm Back 😁

Hey guys. Sorry i've been incognito. The data struggle and all. Plus I've been reading this really awesome book and didn't want any social network to distract me.  So let's get down to business. Today I don't really have any thing prepared per sè. But nevertheless.

  Lately I've been asking myself what happiness really is. Is happiness feeling this calm and contentment all the time? Is happiness having no worries? Is happiness having every thing you want? Is that even possible?  Is happiness being in love or having somebody love you? Is happiness a shield or it  just opens our weaknesses further?  Is happiness real? Does it exist ?

      Well, in my life one thing I've come to realise is that happiness is subjective. What makes me happy may not rock some body else's boat. For example , if you give a five year old 1000 naira, he will be happy. If you give me that. I'll be happy o. Just small , but not ecstatic. So you see the difference?  Same amount, different levels of happiness.  This has brought me to the conclusion that, a there's actually nothing like happiness. There's nothing like happiness in the sense that, it's meaning cannot be fully defined. It's volatile.  Doesn't take a particular form. The weirdest things make me happy. Like a call  or actual icecream in the ice cream bowl instead of ewedu or egusi. Sigh. The struggle. Emails also make me very happy because nobody ever emails me. Just IM'S everytime. So you see?  Sleep also makes me very very very happy . And chocolate too. Little things are what make happiness. Really , that's what I feel.

Most times we tend to forget to be happy , because it's actually fun to wallow in sadness and self pity and feel sorry for yourself. Really.  Like when someone you've been talking to over a while just suddenly stops texting you, it's easier to assume that you're not shit and that's why they have stopped texting you. You actually feel justified not texting them either and letting the friendship end. Meanwhile the other person  thinks the same. See how easy it is to kill the happiness that you got from texting that person?

We often forget that happiness depends on us. Like we can always decide to be happy even if our circumstances don't seem to be right. We make our world what we want it to be honestly. Because at the end of it all, it's the little things that matter. So be happy , because happiness is you. That sad melancholy person  isn't you and it isn't healthy either. The more you worry, the more the problem. I know we all have issues in our lives , but we don't have to let those issues define who we are mehn. Really , it never gets better so we have to get our shit together and enjoy the roller coaster called life.

So now I'm just going to write a list of random  things that make me happy in no particular order , and I want you to do this too, it's like counting your blessings.

 

Phone calls

sneezes

hot water

lemon tea

coca cola

sleep

dairy milk

Toblerone

sam smith

lana del ray

Celine dion

ed sheer an

100 percent battery life when the light goes

No traffic

new twitter followers

people texting me first

when taofeeq actually calls me

cake

when deji says sorry 1900 times

Voice notes

twitter mentions

Writing new poems

finding something to watch on dstv

Good grades after studying hard

shorts

peace after praying

views on my blog

Making people laugh

funny movies

Adam Sandler

Funny yoruba movies

light throughout the night

when people are polite to me

moneyy

When tomiwa gets curved

the smell of new books

the colour black

Inspiration out of the blues

hanging out with the billionaire  sisters

eating eggs

Instagram likes

lol, and laughing. I love laughing

Yes, Taylor Swift too.

old fashioned stuff

and the list goes on

so if you really search , you'd find things that make you happy. You just have to look. Search, for them.

I want to hear from you guys too. What makes you happy ? Email me barakatsheriff@gmail.com

twitter- @denikhe

Facebook- barakat sheriff

and oh! The app for the blog would soon be out on the play store. I'll let you know when it lands. Surprises make me happy too.

I hope you're happy , because I'm happy !

Listen to pharrel's happy song very loud and laugh because honestly life is too short. There might be another post today to compensate for the time I've missed. So stay posted and tell a friend to tell a friend.

             Yours in art,

denikhe raks.