This weekend I bought a copy of the Robb Report magazine. It's a luxury lifestyle magazine that features the best in luxury travel, watches, cars, boats and real estate. Almost nothing in the magazine costs less than a couple of grand. US. It was a special issue so they were only featuring the best of the best.

http://www.robbreport.com

If there's any kind of lifestyle to aspire to live up to. It's in the pages of this magazine. I was reading this magazine in bed, looking through the multi million dollar ranches and gated residences thinking, "shit, I wouldn't mind a house like that". There was this US$6,000,000 ranch that was located in wyoming on a prairie at the foot of hugeass brokeback mountains. Really reminded me of Canada.

What came to mind is our goals in life. It's the ever lingering question to ask whenever you're stoning out and getting emo at 2am with some friend while the radio is playing some crappy rock ballad from the 80's.

The text book answer is "I want to be happy". And the politically correct way of replying to that is "wow, yeah me too". But the real reply should be, "yeah thats great, but so what then?"

Love and happiness are almost the most important things in one's life. If not the most important. It lets us wake up and go to sleep at ease, and at peace. It would be amazing to be happy all the time, but what then? It's almost like saying now that I'm rich I will *blank*. It's a personal opinion that happiness shouldn't be the sole goal in ones life. The problem with happiness is that it can come anytme if we choose to let it come. If we look hard enough, we can find it.

I think it should be a given that everyone wants to be happy. Wouldn't you agree? Or at least some variation of the word to a certain extent. But then we shouldn't we have another goal. Something other than happiness. A more specific goal that extends the meaning of our happiness. Something, that in combination with happiness, makes us more successful than being a happy person.

Happy with friends?
Happy playing soccer?
Happy and rich?
Happy selling ice cream?
Happy with my family?

I'll be honest. Happiness is easy to find. But the real challenge comes in achieving our dreams and being happy. The thought is daunting like shit. But honestly, what's the challenge in just being happy.