What makes you happy? A friend of mine asked me this question. Honestly, I was not able to answer the question right away. I wasn’t aware that people sees me as a happy person so I was caught off guard when she asked me about what makes me happy. I asked her what made you ask me that question. She said because I see that you are happy and she wants to know my secret so that she’ll become a happy person as well. I told her it’s because I satisfy myself with what I have. I see all things that comes to me as a blessing and I always make sure that I am able to balance all the aspects of my life. I once read that for a person to be truly happy, he or she has to learn how to balance his/her emotion, health, career and spiritual life. I didn’t realize it before but I am doing just that. Keep in touch with my family and friends, I try to get at least six hours of sleep, I set and aim to achieve the goals and I go to church.

If you’ll come to think of it, having all the riches in the world is worth nothing if you don’t have anybody to share it with. True happiness has a lot of sources and can come in different forms but it can never be acheived by the material things that we have. One great source of happiness is to make other people happy. You don’t have to give other people expensive things just to make them happy. A simple smile or a simple hello or even a simple thank you can always bring a smile to everybody. So how about you? What makes you happy?