Pause.Think.Respond no more

"Happiness is never stopping to think if you are."
-Palmer Sondreal

Have you ever had someone ask you if you were happy and your first response was

*pause [...] Yes!*

What ignites the pause to thought to response in us in expressing happiness?
Do we feel like it is narcissistic to "be happy?"
Are we uncertain of our happiness because we are made to believe we must have certain things (clothes, money, Fortune 500 jobs) to be genuinely happy?
Are we afraid that if we respond yes that we must “live up” to that answer?

Stop thinking.

Stop pausing.

Stop being defined by others definition of happiness and just BE.

#nomakeup