Happiness is..

A good friend of mine told me once that he had attended a relegious lecture in our local mosque on a very interesting subject; happiness.

He said that the lecturer got through to the people by making a point about what happiness really is and what we think it is.

Basically, the lecturer said that many of us think that happiness is the moment where we do our part and achieve as much as we can in our lives because of deviding circumstances. And that our bliss in that situation is because we got as far as we thought we could go without aspiration.

But truth to be told, happiness is accomplished in the sense of aspiring to our lifetime goals and achieving them, no matter what the obstacles. Because only then will we taste the fruits of our labor.

At that point I remembered this slight verse from a song that goes 'to taste the highs we've got to go through our lows first'. Which made perfect sense to me.

But what if we aspire and work towards our goals, and don't achieve them - what then?