name is Ana Montano and my speciality is
fine art you know I could appear in
front of you and talk about my
occupation and why art experiences but I
think that art is about feelings a
person can look at a piece of art and
feel it and no comment about it could
make it better or worse art is based on
happiness is a feeling a very powerful
feeling it is vital for everyone
I named my presentation happiness’s
without a question mark through the
years my happiness had a question mark
and when I asked people what is
happiness they would answer
happiness
happiness is walking with my dog
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then there would come others hold twist
it all around saying I would be happy if
I get that promotion and support my
family I would be happy if the person I
love would love me back
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I would be happy if people notice me
I would be happy if I get that phone I
want or better both people to notice me
having that phone so I said to myself
okay you know even when I was truly
searching for an answer
I was disturbed of about the presence of
a condition in all those answers so I
said to myself what if you get all those
things
I mean you become a mother you have a
complete family you get a dog you walk
it in the sunset you get that promotion
and buy that phone and people notice you
initial pictures of your beautiful
family to everyone then what now there I
say a question mark the question mark
Rises because we will always want new
things different things
and not achieving all those things might
make us feel unhappy again and at this
point you would be back to where you
left because you will always want
something and achieving what you want
is a healthy sign of progression and
well-being but it has nothing to do with
happiness you know in my opinion
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happiness is like love either you feel
it or II don’t and nothing could change
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when we feel unhappy subconsciously our
mind tries to give us solutions in small
things and then in bigger things and we
try to cling to them and make them
it is not the mind who should set a
solution feelings are provided by our
soul our soul does not accept conditions
it is innocent it is free and as much as
one would want it can’t be recessed this
is why everything that comes from our
soul is the truth and it can’t be judged
or changed if you ask me
what is the solution for happiness then
you know I could not tell you that
because the solution is in your soul you
just have to look in there and find it
you are the only one that can of course
many of you have a bigger live
experience than me due to age or
occupation and some of you may try to
contradict me saying that life is more
than soul-searching that there are
people with more serious problems than
thinking about happiness here is the
it is not my mind talking to you right
it’s my soul one thing that I learned
through my art through my life through
my mistakes which I had many is to
listen to my soul and if you can do that
everything else is just a journey the
hardest journey can become easier if you
just feel happy I told you at the
I excluded the question mark because it
implies a condition at the end of my
thoughts I would add another word and
say happiness is unconditioned
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thank you
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