They say happiness doesn't last forever.
Although forever, as
Lewis Carroll
says in
Alice in Wonderland
, it can sometimes be a second.
That is why
happiness is impossible to measure
.
Because each one has the happiness that he can, although it is difficult to achieve what one wants.
Because happiness can be the birth of a child.
But it can be much simpler and no less happy for that.
It can be a plate of food that fills the belly or a medical study that goes well or a smile from someone we love.
Or much more mundane.
Who does not feel happiness when they find a ticket in the pocket of a jacket that has not been used for six months.
And there are, of course, modes or types of happiness.
Because it's also like happiness, instant happiness, hitting a ball squarely with your instep and nailing it at the angle in a dive with friends.
Or, why not, hit a parallel backhand, Roger Federer style, in a tennis match at the club.
Happiness has a thousand faces.
Happiness exists.
Although it doesn't always come.
Or late in coming.
It is insisted: they say that happiness does not last forever.
But it's been a month since we Argentines have been a little happier
.
And that nothing changed -or everything got worse- since Gonzalo Montiel hit the last penalty and
the Emir of Qatar gave Lionel Messi the bisht
so that the captain of the Argentine National Team, with choreography included, finally lifted the
Cup of the World
at the Lusail stadium, back in the once-distant and unforgettable Qatar.
Lionel Messi kisses the World Cup in the characteristic tunic of the Middle East. Photo: AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
And happiness, undoubtedly, is palpable everywhere.
And, survive everything.
Even to the fights for a situation that continues to be tied with wires and an increasingly cracked structure.
Because, as
Rodrigo De Paul
said right after the game-thriller with France, that day will be eternal.
And those 26 players, like the 22 from '78 and the 22 from '86, will also be eternal.
It is impossible not to draw a smile and make you want to dance with happiness when you hear
Hayya Hayya
, the World Cup song.
It is impossible that at a family reunion or a party with friends the
Muchachos
does not sound and the pogo is armed immediately.
It is impossible that during the day (or night) one does not come across a video on a social network that evokes some moment or moment or shows a new detail of the Scaleneta's feat in the Middle East.
Because happiness is also seeing all the possible shots of Dibu Martínez's tibia blocking Kolo Muani's goal.
happiness in everyday life
The scene is repeated in a loop since that December 18, especially among those who did not have the chance, time or money to update the wardrobe linked to the Argentine National Team.
-They scammed you, huh...
-Hey?
You are missing a star...
Clear.
Above the AFA shield there are only two stars.
The third, which has already arrived, is not on the shirt.
Then, complicit laughter and "the champion of the mundooooo" resound in unison, with the last one stretched as far as possible before the fist bump, a pandemic legacy that is here to stay.
If that's not happiness.
What is happiness?
The Royal Spanish Academy says about happiness
:
"Mood of the person who feels fully satisfied to enjoy what they want or to enjoy something good."
Socrates
assured
-at least they say that they say that Socrates assured-:
"The secret of happiness is not found in the search for more, but in the development of the capacity to enjoy less".
Aristotle
reflected
:
"Happiness depends on ourselves."
Immanuel Kant
recommended
:
"Happiness; more than a desire, joy or choice, it is a duty".
Described
Henry David Thoreau
:
“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will elude you.
But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and gently rest on your shoulder.
They say that what the American poet recounted or something similar happened to
Lionel Messi
in his life with the National Team.
But let's continue...
Lionel Scaloni
tells
, in an unmissable interview in COPE's El Partidazo that can and should be watched a thousand times:
"My children drive me crazy, they come home from school singing the songs, all the classmates sing waving their hands well like Argentines"
.
Detail for the unsuspecting: Scaloni lives in Mallorca, Spain.
That is also happiness.
Lionel Scaloni as he has never been seen. Photo: AFP
How long does happiness last?
For now a month, but the expiration date is not seen.
Although the journalists in France, hasty and exaggerated, are no longer very happy, let's say, with the post-World Cup Messi.
It doesn't matter.
Signal that we ride.
Happiness is everywhere.
In Argentina, especially.
But also in Brighton, in Manchester, in Birmingham, in London, in Lisbon, in Madrid, in Seville, in Villarreal, in Milan, in Turin, in Rome, in Leverkusen, in Amsterdam, in Lyon and in Atlanta, the other lands of the 26 champions.
And in Paris too.
Even if the difficult ones are made.
No one can deny having the best in the world and in history stepping on their sidewalks and scribbling with the ball at their feet.
We Argentines have been a little happier for 30 days.
And although it seems impossible, it seems that happiness will be eternal.
We will always have Qatar.
We will always have Messi and La Scaloneta.
Happiness, luckily and proof of the usual bitter (go there, bitter), is here to stay.
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