Trying to reach La La Land

     I think that it has become a sort of trend between teens to answer happy, in response to the question "what do you want to be when you grow up." That's what you're usually told right? Most of us aren't completely sure what we want to be when we grow up. We just hope that it is something that we're passionate about. If you ask someone what is the point of being alive there is an 80% chance that they're going to say something or the other about happiness.
     We happen upon something like be happy, not because there is good in everything but because you can see good in anything. I mean, that is true to a point, perspective really is a lot, but that also leads to some misconceptions. And I feel like people really start to go awry when those people think of happiness as a destination. "If I were only to buy these clothes, or if I went on this vacation, or maybe even got an independent house just maybe I could finally be happy." I see this a lot in my outside world and every time I see it I pity the people who think that secluded way.
     I remember reading a story in elementary school about two cats, one young cat and one old one. One girl and one boy. One who was naive and another who had been around the block a couple of times. The young cat was playing a with her tail, furiously trying to catch it while the older one was looking onto her. "What are you doing?" he asked the younger cat. She replied by talking about  how in philosophy class she had learned about how happiness was located in her tail so she was trying to chase happiness by trying to catch her tail. The older cat then laughed and retorted something to the effect of how whenever he had tried to snare his tail he would always lose but whenever he just went on with his life and minded his own business, his tail: happiness, seemed to always follow him.
      Now, I don't necessarily consider not caring and doing what you want the secret path to happiness, although it is a big stepping stone. I am saying that contemplating the fact that happiness is an emotion, and you don't stick with emotions, you rotate between them, is the only way to get happiness more frequently. I believe that everyone would sincerely be happier if they thought of it as temporary, it comes and it goes, and that's okay. If that was everyone's approach they could find happiness much more often. But as I think about it even more, I begin to understand that though happiness is important, fun is everything.