Corrections

If there is some advice I really would like to give to anyone, anywhere, it would be this: Be happy, just happy.

What is actually the objective of our life here?

It’s this one, to reach happiness; to do what we think is correct in order to get this state of plain satisfaction; to be “fine”.

Each one has got their way to reach it.

It can be working, studying, trying to make the others happy, creating, training or anything else.

Whatever we do, we always follow this goal.

So far, everything seems fine.

The problem arrives when one realizes that sometimes we just forget why we do all this.

Few people are able to recognize happiness when it comes, and even less to enjoy it.

We have been taught that stopping to enjoy the moment means losing a precious time we could use to prepare the future.

It would be wrong to be happy right now, we’ll do it later.

We are surrounded by obligations.

There’s always something to do and there is no time for the rest anymore.

We have to be productive, always looking towards the future.

This little voice controls us: “Don’t stop studying now, you’ll be losing time”, “Remember all these files you need to organize”, “Don’t buy this, you have to save money”, “Don’t eat ice-cream, you’ll put on weight”.

All this, and much more.

And every day we deprive ourselves, we spend every single second fulfilling the duties we receive from society, or even from ourselves.

But remember why you do all this.

Maybe it is time to say yes to the ice-cream and the break you’ve been waiting for for so long and no to the little voice.

What you do doesn’t always need to be useful; all your gestures don’t need to serve to prepare your future if this makes you unsatisfied.

If what you feel like doing now is useless but makes you glad and makes you smile, this is what is most important.

And so this moment will be a beneficial moment for your life.

Your only duty is to be happy, here and now.

Every second that passes is lost forever.

And the time you spend being happy will never be wasted.

If what makes you happy right now is sitting on a bench and watching the leaves dancing on the wind, eating a piece of cake, stopping everything and go read a good book, watching an episode of your favourite serial or going out to see your friends, do it.

Life is now and it would be too bad to waste it only for preparing a future that might never come.

Do you really think there is something more wonderful to say than just “I’m happy”?