Dear Happy

Let me find you in the little things

Taking naps on rainy days, and laughing until I can’t breathe

Happy without reason, Happy by just purely existing

Surely you must believe I’m searching, we are all.

I long to find you

To hold onto you, and never let go

But

I’m learning that it’s okay to not always have you

If I always had you, I wouldn’t be able to appreciate you the way I do

You show yourself in the most unexpected ways:

A selfless act from a friend

That way your special person pulls you close into their chest

Seeing the excitement on the face of a 3 year old boy

You always manage to return, even when the demons take over.

As the the world continues with death, destruction, violence, natural disasters and injustice

You’re there

We band together- to fight these horrors of the world, and stop to realize  that YOU are missing

Not just you, but your brothers and sisters too.

Joy, compassion, love, tolerance, respect.

Despite all the madness, you don’t plan to leave us.

Please don’t leave us.