'''''Happiness is blowing in the wind''''' by Erik Pevernagie (100 x 100 cm) Oil and metal on canvas. x x

When a soothing wind blows gently love through the thistledown of expectations, hope may inveigle the future for timeless care and tenderness to anchor in a bay of good luck.

Let us not hesitate to surrender to our desire and our passion for joy when we are willing to be reborn from the ashes of a lost past and feel ready to burn down desperation and boredom.

Pessimism is not a prescription to escape the hornets' nests of our anguish but a wrong tool to construct reliable stepping stones for the future.

Before our life story crumbles down from our mind and reaches the dead level of our zest for life, let us dive into the depths of our being and uncover uncharted keystones precious for reawakening.

Let us dare to dream and shoot for the moon. Even if we don't get the moon, a million stars may fill us with wonder. We can give happiness a chance because it is learnable.

Life is a choice. Happiness is recognizing the genuine values behind the screen of appearances. It distinguishes worthiness and irrelevance, connectedness and distantness, warmth and aloofness, brightness and dimness. Happiness allows us to steer friskily along the cliffs of the unknown, avoiding the obstacles of narcissism or conceit.

Being happy is more challenging than being discontent because, for happiness, we have to roll up our sleeves and knock down houses of cards. Many abide by 'fake' happiness as it may take much effort.

Others prefer to settle for a life of 'unsolicited happiness' or 'undemanding contentment.' Avoiding misfortunes just under the wire or being satisfied with a shimmer of happy moments now and then afford them the most gratifying options.

If some don't want to be happy, experiencing happiness merely as languor and yawning, they are dissatisfied with a bland state of glee and prefer running like raging bulls through the whims and quirks of life. Their dissatisfaction is their contentment; their displeasure is their happiness.

If we suffer from dependent happiness, we are caught up in a vicious circle of expectation and deception. Constantly seeking more and never feeling truly satisfied makes people crabby and edgy instead of finding a skyline to live up to peace of mind.

Luck can be the magic star that makes our day. Nonetheless, we slowly throttle the power of our creativity if we are overly dependent on luck. Being only reliant on chance events to achieve the essential steps of our fundamental goals in life might lead us into complacency or amnesia.

We may not always be happy with the things we do. Talking it through properly with ourselves to get an answer to the missteps we make is essential. We might thus receive an explanation for our blunders. Instead of encaging our emotions, let us go down into the dark net of our subconscious and transform our inner world by uncluttering the melting pot of our sensibilities and tuning up our thinking patterns. This may be the start of a new day.

Phenomenon: Happiness.