The Pursuit Of Happiness
I have been dogged by one of those statements that someone will make occasionally that will stick in your mind and on your conscience forever it seems like, those statements that make you just say hmmm... Some time a ago a relationship I was in ended with the person saying that they were not happy and they wanted to pursue their happiness. On the surface there is nothing wrong with that but being the thinker I am I had to take it to the next level and ask what does that statement really mean? How do you define happiness and what makes a person happy? It's obvious it's different for each individual or maybe it's not? Recently this interest was perked once again by 2 articles I read on the subject, one by noted author and pastor, Rick Warren, and another by a personal friend, Dwight Rodgers, who also is an author and pastor. "Happiness is feeling good about what is happening in your life. Happiness is not popularity, which is how others feel about you, happiness is what