I’ve learned from past experiences that happiness really is around the corner. That’s because happy times are the product of chemical rushes and neurotransmitter level patterns in our brain, and these patterns result from the perception of specific conditions surrounding us that are hard-coded into our minds to make us happy. Sometimes being in one place, with one or more persons, during one time in your life can result in joy and ecstasy, while a different situation and setting can leave serious negative and even traumatic imprints on your mind. But the really funny thing is that the intensity of the emotions we felt during a particular time become most clear and apparent once our circumstances have changed, as they always do.
And so this is life: continually entering new periods associated with new places, things, people – and most importantly, new memories coupled with strong emotional cores that will go on to either bring us sadness, happiness, or nostalgia in the future. It’s both a beautiful and horrifying thing that the world, to each of us, is our own mind’s creation. But as there is no possibility of reviving or chasing down and replicating a former state of emotion, I conclude that we ought to pay attention to the budding emotional “trap” that is likely forming in each of our lives right now, the trap that may consume us in the future. If it’s a pit of desolation, then take heart and have no doubt that happiness is waiting to arise and stage its grand comeback. And if it’s happiness, then squeeze every drop out of it and savor every moment of it, because it’s sure to change shape again very soon.
