The Happiness Project Book Novels & Stories

Happiness, true happiness lies within yourself. It’s what people tell you when that happiness is taken away. It’s what you tell yourself trying to fill the emptiness in your soul. I had been happy. For six months, my life had been complete bliss. It was the kind of happiness that lets you wake up with a smile on your face and keeps that smile there.

Mancy leaned back in her chair and grinned at me. I walked to the front of my desk, facing my teammates. “As I told you before, my mom died when I was young. Dad often mentioned that she was a wonderful woman and that she always smiled, despite the dreadful illness consuming her body. Later, my dad found out she kept a special journal with quotes and phrases about happiness. Based on them, my mom created several hundred tips on how to be happy…” I drew a deep breath and smiled. “I want to use them in a special app that could help people be happy every day.” Kei's brows knitted as he processed my words. “How do you plan on doing this?”

Later that night, after we’d finally wrestled Mira into bed and read her favorite picture book for the third time, Kate and I collapsed onto the couch. She curled into my side with a contented sigh. “I used to think happiness had to come from something… big, you know? Like fame, or some wild adventure, or that one perfect job.” “And now?” I asked. She looked up at me. “Now I think happiness is a tiny girl in dinosaur pajamas snoring into her unicorn, and you beside me. That’s it. That’s everything.”

I note as I stare at him, “Of course, the most amazing person is by my side, and has chosen to do everything for me, I don’t see why I should be sad anymore.” My heart flutters like a butterfly shimmering it’s wings after a light drizzle, “That makes me so happy I haven’t felt this way in a while.” “You are about to feel even better.” I don’t bother stopping the grin that threatened to split my face into two as I look up at him. “Oh yeah, what can make me happier than I am right now?” “For starters, remember when I told you I wanted to do something long than the scenes? Like writing a full length book?”

How in the world is my entire system not even feeling the slightest feeling of being sleepy? I think for a while and there is this thought in my head that tells me that it is because my entire body is filled with nothing but glee. Happiness. It is definitely that. No other reasons but that. Too much happiness is bolting inside me and it is far too much to handle. This kind of happiness is like caffeine and it is keeping me up all night. Our baby. That was the main reason where this happiness is coming from. My baby with Milo.

Yet here I am, drawing circles on her lower back as she drifts in and out of consciousness. Me, though, I'm wide awake. Sated, but awake. And I can't stop thinking about what Mari said earlier about being content. People always talk about chasing their happiness, but what if that's the root of most relationship problems? What if that's been part of my problem? What if there is so much pressure to be happy, when happiness isn't something you can be every minute of every day anyway? What if being content, with lots of sprinkles of happiness, as Mari describes it, is actually a healthier, more realistic goal?

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I forwarded my step one by one until I reached the small room where I could see almost ten racks loaded with a bunch of books. Yes!! I succeed!!! Happiness overwhelmed my body. I hurried my way towards the rack and took the book one by one but it all gone vain because I didn't find the book I was looking for. Though disappointment raced through my heart my willpower didn't give up, I entered another room expecting to find another bunch of books but the room was empty as hell.

I get the happiness I deserve. _____________________ ♡ THE END ♡

I set my phone down and looked at Mark playing with Harper in the yard. Sunlight filtered through the leaves, casting dappled shadows over them. The pain I once thought would last forever now seemed like a fleeting fog in the river of life. I realized then that true happiness wasn't necessarily found in grand vows or dramatic gestures. Instead, it could also be found here in this seemingly mundane life filled with effusive warmth.