Feeling Good and Feeling Happy are Second Cousins – Not Twins

You exist as one, you live as another.

There is a difference between feeling good and feeling happy.

You won’t always feel happy, but you can always feel good. Because that comes from doing good. Seeking good. Being the good.

You see, happiness is intensity. Goodness is permanence.

Goodness is the foundation, the Earth, the soil in which the flowers — different variations of happiness and joy — can grow. Even when they wither, even when the ground is left barren and bleak, the good remains. And within it lies the potential for happiness. For laughter. For love.

You can feel good, but still sad. But you can never feel bad and happy, at once.

I don’t just mean in terms of health and fitness. Forget your blisters and your heartburn. We’re talking existential fulfilment. I mean pride. Passion. Purpose.

Feeling good is feeling alive. Like you’re living the life you were born to live — that you were born to create.

Happiness is just a side-effect. But goodness?

Now that’s the drug of choice.