Girl with a lonely hand.

Friday 10th October 2008.


Can you be just happy? Or does the fact that I placed the word 'just' before 'happy' imply that I'm going to find some substantial moral view that no, it couldn't possibly be ok to be 'just' happy.

Being happy is a common aspiration in every one of us, so when we experience it we often feel that nice warm feeling. It is nice, and it is warm... but only while it's there. That happiness is too easily snatched away from us, usually by the most uninvited hands.

So, is making ourselves happy really what we're all after? When we are happy we're really just lingering, too afraid to actually enjoy it, because we're waiting for it to be taken away by someone else who isn't happy. I think that we don't try to make ourselves happy at all, purely because of that feeling of it being snatched away too easily. For us to be truly happy we need someone to be there with us, to share the experience with, so that we know they won't risk losing their happiness either. Therefore ours is in two pairs of safe hands.

So, can you be just happy? I really don't think you can. To be happy there needs to be another person to stand with you. To be truly happy they have to hold your hand.


If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

Girl with a lonely hand.

x.