HIDE HAPPINESS
In the beginning of time, several demons gathered to do evil. One of them said: “We must take something from the men, but what do we take from them?”
After much thought, one said: “I know! We are going to take away their happiness, but the problem is going to be where to hide it so they can’t find it.” The first proposed: “Let’s hide it on top of the highest mountain in the world”, to which another immediately replied: “No, remember that they have strength. Sometime, someone can climb up and find it, and if one finds it, already everyone will know where it is.”
Then he proposed another: “Then we are going to hide it at the bottom of the sea”, and another answered: “No, remember that they are curious. Someday someone will build a device to be able to go down and then they will find it”.
One more said: “Let’s hide it on a planet far from Earth.” And they told him: “No, remember that they have intelligence and one day, someone will build a ship in which they can travel to other planets and discover it, and then everyone will have happiness.”
The last of them was a demon who had remained silent listening attentively to each of the others’ proposals. He analyzed each one and then said, “I think I know where to put it so they never really find it.”
They all turned around in astonishment and asked at the same time: “Where?” The demon replied: “We will hide it within themselves, they will be so busy looking for it outside of it, that they will never find it.” They all agreed and since then it has been like this: man spends his life looking for happiness without knowing that he carries it with him.
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