Always happy.

I hear this over and over again, people saying

“I wouldn’t want to be happy all the time.”

The reasoning behind this popular conclusion is always the same: if I was happy all the time, it would become boring, and stale, and I’d get used to it.

Which makes sense.

It makes sense if you come from a place where we live and feel and experience everything from contrast.

Feeling good following feeling bad.

Acquiring skills versus having no clue what you are doing.

Comfort after discomfort.

Positive in the wake of negative.

That is all very real and very valuable, it’s how most of our experiences work, but it also has got nothing to do with the thing I started this little story with.

Because if you’d be happy all the time, it WOULDN’T be boring, or stale.

Why not?

Because you’d be happy all the time.

ALL the time.

Get it?

That specific state of being simply has no room for the emotional stuff we dislike so much and try to get rid of.

If we are happy all the time, we don’t need contrast and going from low to high.