Tuesday, March 20, 2012 @ 4:44 PM

Maybe it isn't about the looks or how much things you have. Maybe a perfect appearance has nothing to do with being happy.

Maybe happiness derives from something other than materialistic things and a flawless outer mask.

The happiest people are those who receive an abundance of love and that are "in love". The happiest people are the ones that have felt true, unending love. The happiest people are the ones with the biggest, kindest hearts.

So maybe, just maybe, happiness comes with having a good heart, and not "things" that can be physically seen or simply purchased. You might not gain anything permanent from merely focusing on the exterior of a person, or even yourself. Everything on the outside can rot, be destroyed, fade, and wear out. What your heart can hold can remain inside until you die. Your beliefs, morals, love, hate, and memories. No one has the ability to take what's inside your heart away from you. When you lose certain things from within, it's because you choose to give in to that loss, not because someone stole them from you. Focus on what you store inside your heart because what goes in may never come out. Everything you save within, even the littlest things, determine whether you're good or rotten.

I don't want to sound too cliche, but my entire rant can be summed up with: Just because you have a pretty face doesn't mean you have a pretty heart. Looks fade quicker than you expect.