The Rainbow Effect

What is happiness?

What is happiness to a boy in Africa and to a boy in America?

What does happiness mean to you and your neighbor?

Happiness varies for different people depending on their current state.

Let's divide our life into different levels.

A person at level 1 desires to reach level 10.

To this person level 10 is happiness.

This person slowly progresses through the levels.

When this person reaches level 5, his perception of happiness will no longer be at level 10.

It will be at level 12? Level 15?

I refer to this as the happiness cycle or the rainbow effect.

You see it but you will never reach it.

I think many people perceive happiness like that.

It is a strange thing.

Happiness.

Much of what we know had been shaped by the society, by the world.

If I did not know better, I would think that some super authority is making us think the way we do.

This authority wants us to work towards certain values.

So that we forget the important.

It is like the monkey in the room experiment.

Happiness cannot be defined.

It has no fixed state.

A person who knows a better place, does not consider his current.

Thank God for eternity because that is the eventual end of all things.

Eternity.

Faith

Faith.

At this point in life, after hearing countless sermons and books, I want to summarize what I know about faith:

Faith is the most powerful force in the universe.

Faith taps into the ability of God which essentially is (no such word exists).

You cannot touch faith or see faith.

Faith and fear cannot rest on the same plane of thought.

If you have fear, you do not have faith and vice versa.

Faith exists in packets.

You might have faith to do something but no faith (therefore fear) in another thing.

You can't possibly have half a faith.

What I had been trying to do all this while is getting rid of my fears.

In doing so, fill up my life with faith.

Lose all your fears. Start believing.

Say "I'm not afraid of this. I believe in this."

This reminds me of a comic hero Green Lantern. The story its about normal people (and aliens) who had been selected to become space police because of their ability to overcome fear. Their rings allow the users to construct anything from their imagination.

I think faith is like a muscle. You got to work at it.

You got to keep losing your fears and call faith in.

One day, I will have the faith to do anything, heal people, raise the dead.

Anything.