On Happiness and Our World

What does a human being need to be happy? I say what we need is faith. Faith for life, faith for other beings, faith for the world. This faith has to be built and consciously maintained; it is not something we can just choose to have like picking an item to our basket in a grocery store. Building this faith demands awareness in ourselves and in our world. We should learn to see ourselves from a distance of two meters: we are a human being amongst others, our background determining our tools of logic and thought, the background having been given to us by chance. We should remember this in silence and feel it build to our being. We should remember that there are billions of us, and that what applies to us as a human being, applies to all beings on Earth the very same way. Those of us who have been given more should aim at balance, and those of us who have been given less, should aim at building the rest, building what they were not given by life in itself - wherever possible.

Changing ourselves and our environment is and is not a full-time job that should be done 24 hours a day; when we do what is right, we sense the feeling of happiness rise and we should give ourselves time to enjoy it; this should be done every day. The best thing in this is that this enjoyment is free; it does not need any activity to be fulfilled; it is the fulfilment in itself.

Lasting happiness is the feeling that we are building a common, global, balanced planet together.