Our quest for happiness...

I am by no means an expert on this subject, however, it is something I feel like blogging about. Anyone who knows me is aware that I do believe in love and I can be a romantic person. I say this because our quest for happiness most of the time involves love or a romantic encounter. What I have found is that many times we look in all the wrong places for the answers to our quest for happiness. Sadly we or someone else gets hurt. Sadly, this hurt is often times more than a physical pain. It is an emotional one which really tears us up.

I have found that while it is a beautiful thing to be romantically in love with someone, when it is not possible to be in a relationship with that person because they are involved with someone else, or simply don't want anything to do with us in a romantic way, we can and and should find happiness in our lives by seeking out those who do love and want to be with us. Granted this does not involve romance, since most of the time this happiness is found in our children or, if we are so blessed, in our grandchildren. But we can fill a very large void in our hearts if we reach out to those who love us back without conditions. We owe it to ourselves to find such genuine love. If we spend all our lives, especially if we are in our later years of life, looking for love and magical romance we may wake up one day and find that we let treasures in our life just get away because we were too busy in our quest for happiness in all the wrong places and with all the wrong people. Sometimes the one that can bring us true unconditionnal love has been in our lives the whole time, we just refuse to admit or accept it...