In search of happiness I’ve wandered door to door for ages,
yet not even a drop of its light has touched my eyes.
I’ve circled the universe seven times, keeping the earth as my center,
yet nowhere did I find that horizon of happiness.
I thought,
perhaps the Creator has made everything, but not happiness.
Then I stopped myself,
told myself, if happiness doesn’t exist,
then why waste life uselessly seeking it?
Thinking this, I became patient.
After a long, silent patience, suddenly happiness seemed to touch my heart.
While searching for its source, I found,
the trance of patience I had drowned in while giving up the chase for happiness,
that very patience was the true form of happiness!
I laughed in a sad tone at my own blind search,
for the happiness that was within my grasp,
was the very thing I spent the finest hours of my life searching for.