Happiness and Joy in Religious Life?
I never wanted to be a religious sister (nun) because I felt I would never be happy. This calls me to reflect on what is happiness. Some say that happiness is a feeling. It is when you feel good and cheerful about something that happened or is happening in your life. However, I think that true happiness comes from when you make others happy. After I went out of my way to assist someone and they unexpectedly tell me how much my helping meant to them. I experience an unexpected warm feeling inside. True happiness I think is a sense of fulfilment you feel even if what you did was not acknowledged, yet you know that deep down inside you did and gave of your best to help someone without any conscious ulterior motive. You did it because it was the right and necessary thing to do at the time. Everyone searches for happiness and many know that true happiness cannot be found in things,...