Four Level of Happiness by Robert T. Sumalpong

happiness is a test whether in learning or in success. it is the trial between the different views of life. happiness will tell you what kind of person you are. it will show your dreams and failure. the more we become acquitted to happiness. the better learning we are going to have. there are time I wonder. how happiness shape our lives? I ask my friends and other people. what are their views on happiness? some of them say. "happiness is a gift.? others said. "happiness is a journey that need preparation in order to experience it." while some of them said. "happiness is a natural feeling of human being." in there different views of happiness, some question came to my mind. what are the factors that make them say those kind of statement on happiness? then the answer came to my mind saying. "every person has different experience of life. they have different wants and needs. and most of all they experience happiness in a different level." as I continue to discover the secret of happiness in our lives. I learn that happiness is a test. and the time we experience it. we must pay attention on it, for us to learn and grow on the knowledge that came from happiness. there are moment that I ponder how can we experience the higher level of happiness. then there are thoughts that came to my mind telling me. "the greater wisdom we have the higher and deeper our happiness will be." and the other thought of my mind is saying. "the heavier trial we have. the more knowledge we can gain." there are time we are to busy on pursuing our goals. and forget the purpose of why we want to achieve our goal. we are driven by the knowledge that the more money we can have the happier we are. this knowledge about happiness is way of deception from adversary of true happiness. in some way money can give us happiness but not to the higher level of happiness. four level of happiness will help you determine what kind and level you are on your pursuit of happiness in life.being a child before my knowledge of happiness is very small. as a child before I will be happy for a peso in my hand. I will be happy when I win the game. as I grow I learn some principles that could help me to experience the higher level of happiness. these are the four level of happiness that everyone can attain. childhood happiness. adolescence happiness. adulthood happiness and the fourth is eternal happiness. maybe other will say that their is no level of happiness. cause everyone's happiness is the same. this is one of the reason why I write this book. the other reason I write this is to share what I experience about the level of happiness. some may ask what is the difference of childhood happiness to the adolescence happiness. same to adolescence happiness to the adulthood happiness. some may question about eternal happiness. if there is possibility to experience eternal happiness in this life. I been questioning myself before if there will be difference on those four level of happiness. until the time I experience those four level of happiness and prove to myself that every level of happiness has different needs and want for us to experience it. I been reminded of the saying. "a wise person learn from his experience and the more wiser person learn from the experience of other." if these will be the case to experience the higher level of happiness that will become so easy to attain it. but in the case of happiness it is not like that. we need to experience it before we can say to yourself that we already reach the higher level of happiness. we must keep in mind that we are unique from each other. and have different Ideology about life. our different idea about life has also affected our view on happiness. some people say that. "the real happiness can be found in the home." then a question came to my mind. is there any unreal happiness? I ask my friend. "do you believe that real happiness can be found at home?" he answered. "yes! I believe that the real happiness can be found in the home." I ask follow up question. "why you said that? is the happiness that come outside of the home is unreal?" he replied. "we can only feel real happiness when our life is complete. and the only thing that will complete our life is our home." I pause for a moment and say. "you have right point. home can make us complete when there is understanding and love to each family." for me every happiness we feel is real. it need certain degree of time and effort to experience it. all of us been put in this world to experience all learning whether it comes from God or from this world. and one of the learning we are discovering to, is the learning that comes from happiness. we learn the design of happiness in a step by step process. I heard from one of my friend that say. " A person that is always happy are those person who have experience many heartache in life." maybe she was right. "we can't be happy when we did not experience heartache." some thought of mine say. " A day that begins with a smile will end with a smile." last 2007 I have a conversation with a friend. we talk about the important of priority and work. he say's that, " the best way to accomplish all our goals is to arrange it by making a list of priority." he added. " priorities all the goal that is inspired by God." I replied to him saying. "all goals that we made in life is inspired by God. And God give us the heart and mind to choose better goals upon our own understanding." in that conversation I learn that all Human being is given the time to know what is the best pathway they must follow. "the pathway in which the world has given or the pathway in which God has presented to everyone." In our daily life we are facing a bunch of challenges. we are also given many choices. part of the choices we are facing in life is the choices of sorrow and happiness. In the scriptures there is an account that say. "there is an opposition of all things." there is good and there is bad. there will be a looser and there will be a winner. This is the reason why there is a saying that say. " happiness is a choice." this kind of philosophy is been install to the mind of other people. some people could easily say that you can be happy even in difficult time of life. these will only happened when you already know the ending of the difficulty in your life. it need courage and understanding to make that experience possible. One time in my life I experience a very challenging and difficult situation. It was in my youth. since in my youth I experience working in a construction firm. It is my difficult time because I choose to work rather than to continue to study high school. I experience what is the feeling of being a construction worker. being a construction worker it is a difficult time because you need to be expose in the sunlight all day long. and when the work is need to be done in exact time we work over time. and get only a low rate salary. that is the time I understood the feeling of those people who work in construction firm. the sacrifices for their family and for those people they love. even in that situation I seen that my co-workers are have time to smile and be happy. all the hours that we been working at the end we have a smile to our faces because we feel successful for that day of work.