"Happy people just don't shoot their husbands." -Elle Woods

How happy are you? I mean really happy? What was the last thing you did, or saw that made you happy? What was it exactly that made you happy?

While watching the movie Legally Blonde, I know, some how I just got sucked in; but while watching, there were several scenese that made me laugh. It was funny, and it made my belly jiggle like Santa Claus on Christmas.
But after that scene was over, that feeling was over. It made me laugh, but it didn't make me happy. We used to have a 50 inch rear projection screen television. It was awesome, until we had a lightning strike. So, insurance paid for a 46 inch plasma flat screen. It was incredible, until the capacitors stopped working and the tv started turning off and on by itself. So, we went and got a 42 inch LCD flat screen. Well, we bought the floor model so you have to turn it on a certain way or the sound won't work.
I don't know if you have caught on yet or not, but everytime we tried to make our selves happy or replace the last bit of happiness it just went down badly and that happiness was left unfulfilled. And when I say we, I really mean me.
There is a book called The Five Languages of Love. I you haven't read it, you should. The book is about learning about the languages of love. For example, some people all you have to do is tell them that you love them and that's enough. Their love language is affirmation or verbal. Where as others, need to see it through actions. Some need to see it through materialism.
Some people have more than one love language.
I bring this up because we each look for happiness in something different. But the problem is that we look for happiness to come from others. We wait for some one else to bring us happiness.
The solution to our happiness problem is to search within. Growing up we all strived to find that one thing or things that made us happy, but we got caught up in making everyone else happy. Don't lie, you know you did it too!
I am now 33 years old and with the new year and all the reflecting I have done; I need to start relying on myself to become happy. It has to start with me. I have to become responsible for my own happiness. Of course I still invite with open arms the opportunity for others to bring me happiness, but I have come to an understanding that if I am not happy with myself, ultimately I will really never be happy.
So where do I start to make myself happy? That's a great question...I have talked about it in other blogs. But in the future I plan on really breaking down my path to happiness.
What drives your happiness?