True Happiness

I would consider myself a fairly happy person; I have even been identified many times as the girl with a huge smile and dark eyes. However I do love to through a good pity party, where I sit sulking over my problems and mistakes for longer than needed because I can’t be perfect, like a lot of girls do.

So I was recently reading a book called Sophie’s World by: Jostein Gaarder that is a novel about the history of philosophy and always raises really thought provoking questions.

“True happiness lies in not being dependent of such random and fleeting things. And because happiness does not consist in benefits if this kind it is within everyone’s reach. Moreover have once been attained, it can never be lost.” So according to this quote from the book Sophie’s World happiness isn’t found in the fleeting things like friends or sports or anything else, it has to come from within. And honestly this feels a little bit impossible to me because if I am ever in a fight with my friends or family I turn to something else like another person or art and music. However the problem with this is that those are trivial things that could be taken away from me at any time and then I would no longer be happy in theory because I wouldn’t have my sources of happiness.

So after much thought and conversation about what perfect happiness really is I finally come up with the answer. “My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior--from violent men you save me.” (2 Samuel 22:3) God is the only ever constant thing, which can never be taken away from anyone even if everything else I love is, God will always be there to comfort me. I truly believe that looking for true happiness inside of you is a lot more of an atheist idea because they only relay on themselves, but not those who follow the true God you will never be alone and you will never feel unhappy. "Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in God." (Psalms 31:24)

-Angela Garcia