World Happiness Report

It is a beautiful world Everyone in the world is happy about their well being That is the World Happiness Report today This version of the report will never see the light of day As long as humanity is surrounded by selfishness, greed and hatred Earth is a big and beautiful place that can feed, dress and make us all merry But the mind of Man is a hostile place with competing interests On one lobe, we have the ethical boundaries that guide us to do good And on the other, we have socioeconomic forces that make us clash with each other It is almost impossible to find common ground Individualism, competition and capitalism are some of the forces of unhappiness That have driven humanity to the verge of depression and suicidal ideations (nuclear holocaust) Expectations, timelines and busy schedules are all sources of unhappiness The narrow definition of success has truly pushed us into a corner The need to acquire material possessions has been put on top of the list of our priorities Resulting in a life of toil, turmoil and distress (uncertainty) What really went wrong in our formula for success and happiness? Did our mathematicians get it all wrong? Happiness is not a physical state It is a spiritual state of being that is not governed by any physical laws It is neither material possessions nor poverty that drives the sense of happiness Happiness is an element of consciousness To be truly happy one needs to undress their consciousness And address the elephant in the room We need to awaken the spirit within In order to liberate ourselves from a life of unhappiness We need to reject the world of uncertainty And dress ourselves with the particles of the illuminated Light (faith, hope and Love) We need to submit ourselves to the wisdom within And be filled with the everlasting awareness True and lasting happiness stems from the bowl of nothingness A life of surrender (emptiness) and unconditional Love One for all, and all for one ©Kenneth Maswabi