Have ya'll seen that Will Smith movie, "The pursuit of happyness"? Do you know what it tells us? It tells us that happiness can be bought. All the struggles that he and his family went through was by reason of the lack of fuckin' money. He ain't got no dough to pay the rent, to pay the daycare for his kid, keep his wife happy, et cetera, et cetera. The motherfucker was a goddam loser. Then he turned his life around. He got it around by makin' money. All that shitty movie ever was about was money. We're all fools cryin' while watchin' and old Willie is at his Malibu mansion sippin' Crystal thinkin' we're suckers.
For me, happiness is a state of mind. It is a by-product of freedom. It is a state of mind because we only know it inside our heads. Looking happy and actually being happy are not the same animals. I believe that "Hindi lahat ng gusto nating gawin, pwede...at may mga kailangan tayong gawin, kahit hindi natin gusto." (We can't do everything we want, and we need to do some things even if we don't want them.) If we are doing more of the things that we want compared to those that we need to do but don't want, then we are happy. If we are stuck with doing the things we need to do but don't want, we're unhappy. The freedom to do the things we want is the yardstick of happiness.
