Our conversation got pretty personal, and more and more intimate questions emerged, "So what do you call a happy family"?…I took a long pause and a deep breath also emerged, it was a question I never expected and in the next minutes I became pensive, and I thought of the wonderful family I would call happy.
I thought of that family where love abounds, where it means everything to love. The perfect family where trust is the value, where every one cares and our successes are our happiness, that ideal family where Christ and his teachings form the foundation of our values. I imagine the family that upholds the fan and fantasy theory, where we celebrate one another and we long for the presence and company of one another…
I’ll call it a happy family if it’s got enough resources to make everyone comfortable, all though this isn’t really pertinent, but of course resources are a very important drive for happiness, I want to explore the world with my family, at every opportunity we get, and doing this of course needs a lot of resources, however my friend goes on to argue that poor families are also happy, but I do disagree, I asked myself, “what goes through the mind of the poor man when he sees a rich one lavishing and wasting resources he dearly needs, is he (the poor man)really happy?” however, the rich man also has his challenges, and the balance becomes clear. But the truth is, is there any happy family?
Personally, I cannot be happy when my “needs” cannot be met, if one person isn’t happy, then the family cannot really be happy, we can share our love and understanding when we are all comfortable.
But then again, I thought of what I define as “happy”, examining it, the word strikes me as a temporary shallow feeling, more like a momentary feeling, and it would be unjust to associate a long standing permanent institution like family with happiness that is defined as a temporary feeling.
In all of these, I just want true joy with the family I’m gonna have…a constantly happy family however does exist, mine shouldn’t be an exemption…
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