On the Theory of Happiness

I found myself tearing up this morning while watching a Kao Merit commercial,
and that led me to listen to Ringo Sheena's "Theory of Happiness" for the first time in over a decade.

After seeing the commercial, I realized that a song I had always thought was a love song is actually about a much broader sense of "love."

When I listened to it again, the final lyric, "The simple truth that you are alive there is enough to make me happy," really struck a chord with me.

I think that for anyone, just the fact that they are alive is enough to make those around them happy.

I think everyone wonders about their own reason for existing at some point,
but it turns out that just being alive is enough.
Just by me being alive, people around me are probably happy.
The same applies in reverse.
Even if there is someone who really annoys you, there are surely people around them who are happy because that person is alive.

Thinking that there are people around me who feel happiness because of me,
I feel that my own existence has a great deal of meaning.
That is what I thought after listening to the Theory of Happiness.

I think being able to think about things like this is proof that I have recovered.
When I had just been discharged from the psychiatric hospital, I didn't have the luxury of thinking about my "reason for existing."

I feel like my life is moving in a nice, upward trajectory.
What do you think?