If we look at a group of children, the first thing we notice is that there is a cackling and clucking going on, there is laughter, joking, the joy is literally tangible. The children are constantly laughing, smiling their way through the day, if the mood darkens then only briefly, after a few minutes the good mood is back. Children are the epitome of good humor, it's just fun to watch them.
A group of adults (of any age) behaves differently, especially the men try to look serious and important. Several women are a bit different, more playful, not so influenced by the seriousness of life, they still laugh heartily, among the gentlemen of creation laughter seems to be considered a weakness.
Who now observes a group of men sometimes gets stupid sayings: What are you looking at? Do you want trouble? The carefree attitude has disappeared, the entire behavior has become completely different, the face looks grim and serious, especially men are caught in the male behavior pattern, can no longer get out.
Just the behavior of the gentlemen of creation comes partly still from the Neanderthal man, from a time in which "one" had to impress the other group members, asserted himself with force and power, but it is not like that nowadays. Maybe it will be like that again, but we can do our part against it, by not forgetting the good mood from the childhood days, by bringing back the carefree times. Because: No matter whether we look grim or cheerful, the circumstances will not change, we change our state of mind, but the world continues to turn unperturbed. Whether we laugh or cry, nothing changes, so why not just strive for the path of Buddha, which is a path of the middle, not "sky-high-cheering", not "to-death-distressed", no, calmly resting in oneself, with the smile of the knower in the corners of the mouth, that's how you can also go through life.
Whenever you see children, put yourself back in your youth and smile, no matter how hard and "unfair" life has been to you again today. Always with a smile on your lips, you can also put yourself in such a state, please the environment with it. Because good mood and laughter are contagious, life does not change by it at all, but you yourself, you will simply have it easier.
The way of the middle, that contains a light smile, with man and woman, with young and old, because why should you not enjoy the way, where you have to go it anyway, because things happen, whether it suits us, or not.

This was my experience of happiness and pain
- Buddha - honorary name of the Indian philosopher Siddhartha Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero

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