We Make Our Own Happiness
Somewhere inside the hallowed hallways of the high school most students come to the realization that they must make their own happiness. High school is, of course, where most of us work out the answers to the warp and woof of our lives, and the HS years provide enough of the zany predicaments of friendship, sexuality, education and labor to change any mind that is open and willing for amendment.
Happiness is not parceled out in textbooks or reefers, although both ends of the spectrum offer their own pitfalls. In HS we learn (even if we don't recognize the lesson until later) that no one or no thing can provide what we are looking for. AA programs are filled with people who have looked for happiness in a bottle. But there are others who have sought to find it in career, money, sex, or a thousand other "possessions."
Post HS, as the world becomes potential and promise, we can leave behind the deficiencies of our lives and embrace the happiness we create for ourselves. Most of this, of course, will be found in connections with others . . . helping, serving, growing, giving. A happiness given is a happiness embraced.
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