Happiness

The sage sighed and fall in thoughts . He looked at the traveler and lowered his eyes. The sky was smooth and clean, and the clouds, getting lost to the horizon, were trying not to obstruct visibility.

"So what?" - repeated the traveler, looking at the old man.

The sage began: "You was wanting to find out what God did not say to people, you were asking if there were any secrets. Everywhere there is something inaccessible to simple eyes, God too could not be completely sincere, not because he wanted to deceive you ... just ...

God created the world and people, they correspond to each other, God created feelings for people, he opened all for people, except for one, a sense of happiness, he did not create it. It does not exist."

"What, how dare he!" - the traveler stamped his foot and pushed the old man: "Are you saying, that our God is a liar? He urged people to be happy all the time, knowing that it is not possible? This is worse than sadism."

"Do not get excited, I understand, it's hard to believe in this, our God is not a liar, it's not so, I'll try to explain to you. Happiness is impossible in itself, it do not exist, it's a false feeling, like a hallucination or a desire for something unconscious. People have a lot of feelings - love, hope, loyalty, freedom. God called them to live right, not to fall down. Everyone sees happiness in his own way, everyone chooses what is most important for him, there is no unique universal happiness, that would make everyone happy." - the old man fell silent.

The traveler also was not knowing what to say.

"Look at the sky" - said the sage: "There they want you to be happy, all these people, all these stars and planets are only for this, if only they would be able to make you happy ... We do not want to see it, we do not want to be happy, we want God to come and give us something, that will be everything, not even knowing, that such thing does not exist. "

"How to live now without happiness?"

"How can you live ... you used to live without it somehow, I did not take it from you."

"We were believing in the best, we were believing, that happiness is possible."

"You were happy neither before nor after, why did you decide, that you would be happy someday, if I did not tell you this. And why did you decide, that you will not be after my words?"

"Happiness ... it's a lie ..."

"And if God had told you, that he himself does not exist, would you believe him?"

The traveler started thinking.

"Does not the idea of becoming happy attract you? Do not you think it's romantic to do for yourself that even God could not do for you? Would you like to become a god for yourself?"

"How could I?"

"Is not it that God just was wanting from you? Did he tell you to be happy for your sufferings?"

"It turns out so."

"You are mistaken, walking on the water and raising the dead, God would not be stingy to give you happiness, he gave you everything for it."

The traveler began to cry.

"If you need a fire, and God gives you firewood and matches, who is guilty in the absence of fire? If he gave to you just a fire, the latter would finish five times, until you would realize, that you was needing it. Any dream is attractive and beautiful only when it has not yet come true. Having realized, the latter gives you its result, which becomes unnecessary and disgusting, is it a reason to stop loving dreams?"

The traveler held his head and trembled.

"Build unrealizable dreams, and they will remain dreams, God was always urging you to go to the ideal, the ideal will always be unachievable, even God himself is not an ideal. Believe that you can be happy, was the God demanding from you impossible things? Everyone decides himself, when he will become happy. Let's you will become happy right now ... Not ready? Well, then wait a few more years, continue to complain about life and God ... "

The traveler stopped crying and hugged the old man.

"The presence of death does not negate the necessity of life, you do not change the world, but you can change yourself and no one ,except you, can change you, even God."

The traveler looked at the sky: "They want me to be happy there, and I want the same here on earth. It will be strange if we fail."

The old man smiled and gave the traveler a medallion: "Will remember about me and our meeting"

"And about happiness." - added the traveler.

"And about happiness."