Poetry

The Human Race’s Everlasting Quest to Find Happiness

Written by Emily Winters

What makes you happy? The ability to shout from the highest point, “I am alive, I am a kicking, screaming human being…you cannot take me, or my opinions, or my rights, without a fight. I am so me, and so alive, and that’s just right.” That’s wonderful. Yes, life has its setbacks but that’s why it’s beautiful. It’s the ups and downs that create such a magnificent landscape; life is a sum of all its moments: the good, the bad, the brilliant, and even the ugly. Life is what you make of it. What makes you happy?

Happiness, joy, elation; such a feeling…yet so many do not experience it day to day, dragged down by other worries. Try to be happy. I’m not going to say something callous like “don’t be sad” because I know. We all have a range of emotions that span from radically insane to what most would deem “commonplace.” Humans are extraordinary, are they not?

Every person on the planet is their own. Everyone is capable of right and wrong; every creature is born neutral, able to make their own decisions about just who they might become.

Isn’t that how it is supposed to be? The glory that is free will should conquer all; they are our minds, allowing us to think and believe as we may. It is nearing the end of 2014, and still there are those who are unable to be their own person. I believe that to be the human race, all of us must be “allowed” to be human.

What right do they have to take away freedom? We live in a fool’s paradise, it is true, but I believe that one day, everyone will be able to be happy, able to make their own decisions and express themselves freely. Isn’t that the dream?

The human race’s everlasting quest to find happiness…we as a people will never stop looking. We all seem to think that somewhere between Day 1 and today, it went missing. I’ll tell you a secret: happiness, much like love, can be found in the unlikeliest of places, as long as you keep searching, never close your eyes to joy, and always spread what’s within your heart.