What's Making you Happy?

“What’s making you happy?”

When you begin to experience inner happiness, friends or foes will be asking, “What’s making you happy?” This type of question will become more compelling when they look at your physical or emotional situation and see nothing for you to be happy about. When they are expecting you to be sad, you feel happy. When they are waiting for you to be sorry for yourself, you are showing gratitude.

When they are anticipating that you respond angrily to a situation, you show equanimity. When they are expecting you to take a retaliatory measure against someone that has just hurt you, you show forgiveness. It is not the time for you to explain anything to anybody. They will not understand. It is not the time for you to defend or justify your action. You cannot win the argument.

So, whenever you are experiencing inner joy and happiness, and the people around you seem to be perplexed and want to know why you are happy, you just look at them in the face, smile for them, gently nod your head and say, “Everything.”