...but about the Nature of this Happiness, men dispute, and the multitude do not in their account of it agree with the wise. For some say it is some one of those things which are palpable and apparent, as pleasure or wealth or honour; in fact, some one thing, some another; nay, oftentimes the same man gives a different account of it; for when ill, he calls it health; when poor, wealth: and conscious of their own ignorance, men admire those who talk grandly and above their comprehension. Some again held it to be something by itself, other than and beside these many good things, which is in fact to all these the cause of their being good. ~ Aristotle, Ethics (Kindle Locations 380-384)
What is happiness?
It wears many faces...
contentment, jubilation,
gaiety, well-being, ecstasy,
so many hues, such variety.
Certainly we would mention
the need du jour, imagining – believing —
it descriptive of "happy"
despite a history of grasping targets
to find dross.
What is happiness
but welcoming life on life's terms,
accepting today as a thing of beauty?
It wears many faces...
contentment, jubilation,
gaiety, well-being, ecstasy,
so many hues, such variety.
Certainly we would mention
the need du jour, imagining – believing —
it descriptive of "happy"
despite a history of grasping targets
to find dross.
What is happiness
but welcoming life on life's terms,
accepting today as a thing of beauty?
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