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Good-Bye to Happiness

There are people who even say good-bye to happiness. Of course, if any person was asked a question: 'Would you ever refuse from happiness if it suddenly arrived and knocked on your door?', the answer would invariably be 'NEVER'. So does it mean that people have noticeable reasons to say good-bye to their happiness when they do it?

In reality, cases of saying good-bye to one's happiness are different. Sometimes it has to do with refusing from one's happiness for the sake of other person's happiness – the so-called altruistic approach which is used within families and often brings regrets.

Let's say there is a woman who is married to a good man who loves her to pieces. She respects him and trusts him in return. They have two lovely kids who they both love and bring up in peace and harmony. And then another man appears in this woman's life – the man from her past, the man who she loved (and still loves) deeply – something they called true love. He once mistreated her but now he came back and it's too late. The woman knows who she truly loves but she refuses from her true happiness for the sake of happiness she has now.

Sometimes a person says good-bye to his or her happiness just because he/she doesn't recognize it. The person thinks it's something mirage-like, something which would bring disappointments or something unworthy, but in reality a person doesn't even understand that he or she has just said good-bye to happiness.

Of course, saying good-bye to your happiness is silly, it's irrational because happiness is what we live for, happiness is worth fighting for and doesn't require anybody to sacrifice their happiness for the happiness of someone else unless it's a parents-kids matter of course which is an exception.