There's "I" in Happiness

 1) Family: We are all born into a family. 

                    We all have the chance to create our own family.

2) Spirituality: We are free to explore the meaning of our own existence. 

                          We all have the freedom to choose how to do so.

3) Purpose: We are capable to find our own sense of purpose.   

                     We all have the capacity to do it in our own way.

4) Happiness: We are able to find happiness in life’s simple things. 

                        We all should be aware of that there is no more simplest thing 

                         than being alive.

5) Love: We are endowed with the capability for love. 

                We all should have the capability to grant and accept love willingly.

6) Connection: We are separate yet interconnected individuals. 

                          We all must understand the difference between them.

7) Food: We owe our bodies the nourishment they deserve. 

                We all can discern when we are doing it right or wrong.

8) Knowledge: We are design to absorbed and process knowledge. 

                          We all acquire wisdom when we are capable to explain it.

9) Individuality: We are born equal no matter the circumstances. 

                             We all have the freedom to explore our own individuality.

10) Success: We are presented with different challenges through our lives. 

                       We all can resign ourselves to any type of challenge. 

                        We all can adapt or overcome any and all types challenges.

"Tuesdays with Morrie" a book by Mitch Albom

A teacher's last lesson to his student 

about the ultimate "Tension of Opposites" 

between life and death.

Morris Schwartz was Mitch Albom sociology teacher in college during the early eighties. Morrie was a kind and loving man who loved dancing and loved to share his knowledge about what it meant to be a real human being.

Mitch developed a close connection to Morrie and delighted in exploring his points of view about society as it was perceived at the time. However, after Mitch graduated college, and lost contact with Morrie, he came upon an interview of his old college teacher on television. And discovered that he was suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS, a terminal disease.

After reunited again, Mitch started visiting Morrie every Tuesday into what became his final lesson about life, death, society and basically all the aspects of the human experience.

Morrie, until the very end, possessed a profound understanding on how society viewed the meaning of life and how people mistake purpose with the mundane aspects of such life. Yet, they ignore the simplest instances which help to define them as morally human. 

The philosophy and awareness that Morrie acquire during his last days on earth signified to Mitch a new level of moral consciousness which could be applied to our very own lives.

“Here’s what I mean by building your own little subculture […] I don’t mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don’t go around naked, for example. I don’t run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can’t let any one—or any society—determine those for you.” – Morris Schwartz