Ah yes, old friend, how long has it been? Musing and ranting about everything and nothing at all is apparently quite a chore since I can only bring myself to do it about every 3-6 months or so now.

I was just thinking and began to wonder whether or not the internet would like to have such thoughts for it to hold and offer to posterity the wonder of me making a complete ass of myself on a daily basis.

What was I thinking about, you may ask? I was thinking about happiness, what it means and what we pretend it means. There are plenty of e-philosophers who pontificate on such a subject daily, whether it be on their own blogs, message boards, or personal websites. I'm no different from them, and being in such unison I figure I can go ahead and add my pitance to the meaningless pot.

Happiness is, simply put, achieving what you desire. Everyone on this planet has wants and needs, regardless of culture, class or situation, to have them met is to be happy. However, I believe that our desires go out beyond the realm of actuality and find themselves rooted in mere possibility. Possibility without probability is hopeless and is where sadness lies. If a loved one passes on, our desires are to have them still alive with us. Since we cannot have what we desire, we become sad. Or, even worse, we being to fear the inevitability of not achieving our desires.

While happiness is a physical manifestation, desire is a social construct. While every person's happiness, or lack thereof, comes from their desires, everyone possesses different desires.

This all seems simple enough. In all actuality, it is. However it's something you don't think about on a constant basis, lest ye be damned. I always seem to get like this around this time of the year. You know, I read that scientists have done a study and named January 24th the most depressing day of the year. I understand where they're coming from there. The Christmas bills come pouring in, it's getting colder outside Valentine's day shit starts showing up in stores, as we well know Valentine's Day is a holiday created by greeting card companies to make people feel like shit, and we just shot our New Year's Resolutions all to hell.

Yeah, it's about that time.