happiness is...

know what makes me happy and makes me smile spontaneously? when i see my friends happy. priceless feeling... always feel very happy when i see people happy...

i do visit facebook daily and often, i  would look at the photos of my friends' updates. and amongst these friends, there were some whom i know a bit more and am aware of their difficult and eventful past (such as their childhood, or previous relationships, etc...). and when i see them grow over time, their struggles, their successes, how they take solace and find joy and happiness in little things in life, how they extend their compassion to people around them, how they love their life... and how these moments are captured in their simple daily photos. it touches me... very hard to describe the feeling, but i feel very happy for them.

and i will smile. very spontaneously. the kind of smile that starts from the heart and that would end up with a huge smile on my face. and it doesn't matter that we may not be actively in contact, but i feel so bluddy happy for them.

:-)