I am happy

I have read somewhere that the opposite of happiness is not sadness, it is anxiety.

I would like to add that the opposite of anxiety is not happiness, it is serenity.

The opposite of sadness is not happiness, it is joyfulness.

Happiness to me is a whole lot of things. I am happy when I am not starving. I am happy to be warm when it is cold out. I am happy to have leisure time. I am happy to appreciate beauty in nature. I am happy to be in good health. I am happy to go out for a walk along the river whenever weather permits. I am happy to feel secure financially. I am happy to escape a few months of winter every year. I am happy to have a great partner. I am happy to be alive.

Right now at this very moment, it is the sunshine streaming through the big window into the kitchen where I am sitting that makes me extremely happy.