Hold on to each other...

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. For once you lose hold of it, the journey back can be tiresome if not impossible. It hinges on your desire to obtain what once was, instead of searching for newer, more meaningful connections. It can lead you astray with its tantalising inconsistencies - what once felt happy, now uproots the feeling of burden and regret. What once held promise is now spent and wasted. So fight for it - hold on for dear life, because it might never again be as magical.