I read an article about the song "She's Leaving Home" by The beatles. It tells the story of girl a named Melanie Coe who left her parents despite of all the things that they gave to her, the wealth that she had with her parents. The first time I heard that song, of course my sympathy is in the person who left behind (Yes, I just listened on the chorus), yeah and I thought It’s a love song (shame on me). But then when I knew the story and finish the song, I realize that my Sympathy should be in the girl who actually leaving. I know at some point of our lives, our parents can control our lives, they had the rights. But the time that a person felt unhappy and wants to be free, that's the time that they had to leave and change. Maybe this girl is too young to felt that but eventually she will realize that she is sick of how her life runs.
"We gave her everything money can buy", a line in the song that made me realize that money cant but happiness. She had everything that money can buy but this girl decided to leave this kind of life and start with her own and yet it makes Her happy. Some may disagree of what I am saying; some may say that material things can make them happy. But the questions, does your happiness will lasts forever?
That should be the question if you want to know what happiness is. When I was in college my father brought me a new lap top, it makes me happy, then I install a game called The Sims, it makes me happier. But then as years goes by, I become sick of playing that game and even using that laptop, and felt unhappy when I’m using it because I want something new my point is, Pleasure is different from Happiness. All these money can buy which you consider as happiness are just pleasure, You can buy iPhone 4, it makes you feel happy because its new but by the time that apple release a new version of it, you feel unsatisfied. You can buy a Thesis (If you are from my country, I don’t know if that is also available in your country)and you can pass that subject but at the end of the day, you'll realize that you’re not happy and feel guilty after passing subject without any effort from you which makes you feel useless. You can buy sex, you can waste your money buying girls, or even boys, but it’s just pleasure, by the time she or he gave you a great sex, it makes you satisfied, but in the end of the day all she/he needs from you is your money, and you will left alone. I’m not saying that all the things that money can buy are not happiness, I mean c'mon, I’m not retarded, it also makes me happy(especially my CD collection). What I'm trying to say is, the greatest happiness is when you felt it 5 years or 40 yrs ago and you're still feeling happy about it, even without any changes.
For me, happiness is really hard to find. Personally, I had a lot of dates, but just a few serious. Everything is worth a try, so I tried if there is "something but then I felt no "something"(which George Harrison keeps on talking about his song something) on those boys, I always stop, I just Drop it before I kill them. But then met this man, who supposed-to-be-boyfriend (if the world has been nice to me), He got this "Something". My "like" feeling lead to "love" feeling which is something that I felt for the First time. I thought that hey, I'm happy now, maybe this is worth a try for a serious relationship which will prove that this happiness will lasts forever. I decided to tell him my real feelings about him, but ironically he also confessed to me that he’s still have a feelings with his ex, I know it sucks. By then I realize that happiness is hard to find yet hard to get, maybe it’s not just my time to be completely happy or he's not the one. We both like everything under the rainbow; indie films, indie Music, artists, everything that we can share to each other, and that's not enough. You can't buy that feeling, you can't buy that person you love who doesn't love you back, you can't just do that. And if you can buy that person for the love that you're longing for, please, don’t be a moron, that is the stupidest thing you can do. You're just fooling yourself.
Keep in your mind that someday you’ll realize that the happiness you felt once but you didn't get, is just a "teaser", like in a movie. It just want you to feel the intense and realize the fact that there are such thing as happiness that even money can’t buy, it gives hope, that someday in this whole wide world, there’s one person who will make you feel happy from the first day until your whatsoever day. Happiness can't only find in love story or something sweet, you can find it everywhere, like in music, career, films, art, talent, freedom, everything in this planet. Like the girl from that song, she somehow felt love to someone who is not part of her family but someone that loved her back. I don't know the ending of her story but if she made a wrong decision, maybe she's still happy, the freedom of doing the things that you love can't be equal to those material things. Maybe she's just happy not because she runs away from her parents but she made a mistake by her own and learned from it by her own.
Sometimes happiness, is unpredictable. You do the usual things, some people might think, "what the hell is wrong with you", negative reaction from other people, but you never realize that you kept doing those things and you never realize how happy you are in doing those things, which some people find weird but can't imagine yourself not doing that thing. When you found that happiness never let it go but then when you suddenly felt unhappy, NOT BORED, drop it. Stop wasting your time, by that time maybe you learned enough, you just have to let it go and find that person or thing that will make you happy, the feeling that will never make you feel tired or even Bored. Well I guess this song is really not just good but great, is not just a story, it’s a lesson that anyone should learn. Leaving or saying goodbye are the things that hard to do, but leaving is an ending, and every ending is just a beginning. You just have to find that happiness, the fun that will make you feel life is worth living.
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