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Vol. 1 Number 4

February 18, 2026

Do you think Happiness is a feeling, or a habit,

do you work at being happy? 

Janet Wood ©

Happy what is that? Do you feel happy when you do something?

When you buy something, go somewhere, eat something.

Is happiness a fleeting feeling? Or does it stay with you for hours, or

is it fleeting? Leaving you with trying to do things that will make you happy?

I am always content, not happy or sad, or depressed, just content.

I feel contentment is much deeper than happiness, contentment

Is a feeling that is deep in your, for lack of a better word “SOUL”.

Do you see the silver lining in things? Sometimes you must look for it,

but its always there, somewhere.

I have an experience that I seem to share with most people when we speak about

this topic.

An acquaintance I met back in 1999, 2000, after speaking for a few months on the phone

He asked me one day if I took any medications, I said what? Why would you ask that?

Well, he replied that you always seem happy, and went on to say that nobody is that happy,

All the time, I said really, I have always been like this my entire life, of course he replied with that is why I asked you if you are on any medications, or antidepressants.

This question stopped me in my tracks, because I am not depressed, or sad, or even happy

I just am, I am good I am grateful for everything I have, happy is a fleeting feeling to me. He just would not let go of that question, he told me that his sister had been on medication for depression for 27 years, I asked if it was a clinical depression, oh no it is not, she has been tested for that, she is just depressed. At what I asked. Her life, what is her life I asked?

Oh she is a lawyer with a firm in New York, actually a partner something she has been working for many years. I replied with and she is still not happy or content?

She makes over one half a million a year, and her husband makes about one quarter a million a year, so ¾ of a million each year, I said so even with that life they are not happy?

Oh no not at all, both on OTC meds and doctors’ prescriptions for depression?

And what do you earn, or what do you live on? If I can ask? I said ya no problem I live on about well about 20,000$ yearly I jacked the figures up because I knew he would faint.

That is when he said I knew you are on meds of some kind because there is no way that

Anyone can live on that amount and be happy, I replied with really? Then how do you explain me being content, or as you say happy with out drugs?

He was just so frustrated because he thought I was not telling him the truth.

I said why would I lie? What good would that do?

So, he said in his condescending tone I don’t believe you, I answered with

That is ok, you don’t have to.

The moral of the story is to be happy, or content with your life, and if you don’t like it change it.

Share your experiences with happy, or sad or anything in this topic,

Tomorrow lets explore Abundance, and what it is.

Janet Wood ©

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