What is Happiness?

Other than success, another thing on people's wish-list is happiness. I read an excellent definition of happiness which deserves mentioning,

Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. 

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.

I want to focus on the word gratitude here. Look around you. Look at all the miseries people have to live with. No food. No water. Sickness, disability. If you put up your sincere eye, you will notice how sad this world really is.

Then look at yourself. No matter how many things you can find that are wrong with you and your life, I can assure you there is much more sadness around you. However, if one takes an approach of gratitude and being thankful, you will realize that one is better off just counting his blessings and saying "Thank You". 

So as the definition says, happiness is something that comes from within. It is more spiritual than anything else. If one wants to feel happy, he will. If he doesn't want to, no matter how many blessings he really has, he will never be able to see or recognize them. He is already got the mindset of complaining and being discontent.

My friends. Here comes the essence of it all. If happiness is spiritual then it is in our control. We can choose to be happy or not.

Now if given the choice to be happy or not? What would you choose?