Happiness in the eyes of 16 is different from 20
Children would probably fill their stomachs with butterflies when their parents gave them toys that they really wanted for so long. A mini kitchen set, a toy car that you can ride, and anything that will fill your heart with joy.
For some who haven’t encountered the other point of view of happiness, they would agree that happiness is when you have a lot of things you want.
Because if I were still a sixteen-year-old girl who was just sitting in my chair and listening to my professor, I would say, "I agree." With my laptop in front of me, a mom who would always prepare breakfast for me, a phone that has good performance, and a person who I could always count on.
I would agree that happiness is when you have all the things you need and want.
But now that the happiness in the eyes of sixteen is different from twenty, it will be a percentage of fifty-fifty.
If my mom can't prepare my breakfast for me, I won't mind singing and doing a little dance while cooking. If the person I expect to always be there for me leaves me, it's fine to write down my feelings and have fun alone.
But I will not close the door to anyone who wants to make my stomach hurt because of laughter. Maybe I'll knock on their doors too, just to let them hear my 'knock knock' jokes.
A fifty in the eyes of sixteen will look for more than five people to join her in a school club. She would be sad if no one would listen to her cracky jokes, if she would be alone, if her mom didn't make her a meal, and if she couldn't be at her best.
A sixteen-year-old me was always sad when the "happiness" I called never made me smile.
The other fifty in the eyes of twenty isn't opposite to sixteen; it is still the same but now manageable. If I can't find more than five people to join me in a club, I'll make my energy five times better. I can make myself laugh at my own jokes inside my head, and I can be alone but not sad anymore.
Sometimes, even if I can't be at my best...
I still feel the happiest.
Because the happiness in the eyes of sixteen is now different from twenty.
Written by Seenicaetoh
