Happiness

Happiness is a state of mind,

It’s accepting where you are,

Whether in the deepest need

Or reaching for a star.

It isn’t getting what you’d like,

It’s liking what you get.

It isn’t being someone else,

It’s being yourself, and yet—

To find a joy when there IS pain

Or hunger or despair

It takes a strength beyond one’s own,

At least someone to care.

To be content is not to Say

That life should stay the same,

For trying to improve one’s lot

Is more than just a game.

The dreams we dream can lift us up

Until at last we feel

The happiness that we all seek

Is not make-believe, but real.

Helen Elizabeth Bogardus Lane

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