an aha moment for me

it was a few hours before our long exams when we all felt we've had enough studying for the day. so we ordered pizza and decided to play dream day on my laptop. our eyes were all glued on berting to look for stuff hidden in the picture when mariel and her wandering mind suddenly bloated, "i think i can use this game for philo," (yeap, she's random like that.) "you know how the game asks you to look for something, and you think it's this thing, but it's not?" (yeap, she's confusing like that.) "pilosopiya!" (yeap, she's weird like that.)

and surprisingly, i understood. a few days back, mia and i played the same game. we had 3 minutes left to look for one more thing, a stamp. we searched here and there for that one rubber stamp to end the game but couldn't find it. so we used our last hint only to find out that we were supposed to look for a post stamp.

and that's when a thought hit me. nope, this has nothing to do with philosophy anymore (or so i believe).

imagine walking along a path that leads to a barrel of reese's peanut butter cups (or whatever makes you happy. haha)... more often than not, your eyes would probably be on the cups the whole time, without having to realize that the path itself was made up of peanut butter.

you see, sometimes we tend to become too obsessed to find what we think we want, without considering that what we want might just be something else. something completely different. i'd like to think we're far less materialistic than we all seem. what moves us isn't what we want but that unexplainable feeling of content after working hard for it.

happiness, for the lack of a better word.

i think finding happiness has a lot to do about what you think would make you happy and what really makes you happy. the more you're open to the possibility that there's happiness in a lot of things, the easier you'd find what truly makes you smile.

and i hope we all find happiness in the smallest things in this seemingly sad saaaad world. what do you think? =D