Happiness is.
Where there is still hope, there is always happiness.
One day you’ll see how happiness is more about learning to love what you already have than it is about getting everything you want. Happiness is the undeniable satisfaction that washes over you when you realize that while you still have so far to go, this can never negate how far you’ve come.
Happiness is a moment of stillness when you hear your heart after all this time and it speaks to you so softly, yet so clearly you can’t imagine it’s whisper ever sounded like silence.
Happiness is the simple realization that you have no real responsibility to do anything but you choose to anyway because you care about your life enough to want to make it count. You care about your life because you realize it matters — all of it — and even when you don’t understand the purpose of every step, you trust that everything is a brush stroke painting a greater picture on the canvas of your soul.
Happiness is that moment when you feel misunderstood but then you realize it doesn’t hurt so intensely anymore because you finally understand yourself and that’s all you’ve ever wanted. That’s all you’ve ever needed — complete and utter acceptance — the kind that counts because it comes from you.
