How does one write 'happiness'? I don't mean those singular moments when something unexpectedly good happens and elation occurs. I don't mean those breaks in the general, default unhappiness of life. I mean, how does one write a character whose default position is of being happy? My default position is of a general, underlying sadness. Life is something one gets through with perseverance and determination and well, an FU attitude. I will persevere in spite of the normal situation of struggle, two steps forward, three back. But I now know well some people whose normal situation is happiness. Not that they are grinning fools, but that normally they sing, or look at the sun and the trees and treasure loved ones. Once in a while, they experience bad times, bad moments, tragedy even, but this does not shake their general perception of life as being good.
I have no answers here as my life's situation does not allow for a normal position of happiness. I would have to be a madman to be happy. But I am a writer and to put it more particularly, a writer who is firstly a poet. I write emotion. So, how do I write happiness?
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