What is Happiness?

Happiness was when I woke up in the morning and breakfast was ready, it was pandesal with an overcooked sunny side up egg made by my mom, but I loved it anyway. It was when school was easy because it was about 1, 2, 3s, and the A, B, Cs. It was when we go to a store, and I could finally be “Sakura the Card Captor” after a long day of crying because my mom finally bought me the toy that I wanted. It was a wand, and in my mind, I have turned everyone into a frog but not really. It was when I go to bed, and my mom gently taps me on my right hip every half a second, and she hums a lullaby so I could fall asleep. It was when I figured out that I could draw a star on my own. You go from the bottom, slant it upwards, slant it downwards, slant it upwards again, then you go to the right and then bring it down to your first line. Voila! There comes my first ever star.
Happiness is when I find an old note of mine, and read about the things I write called poetries. I call it magic, but my friend Niña says it is not magic but a gift. It is every Friday, "the payday" that finally I survived the whole week without calling in sick although I never really get sick. It is when I go home from work or school, and my brother is on his computer waiting for me so that his Ate can now cook midnight snacks, and together we could gain more weight. It is when I open my Mom's room, and I feel a sense of relief because she is right there, on her bed, quietly sleeping.
Happiness will be when I can finally walk out of Seneca College and go to a university or even better when I get my Masters, and my Mom can finally say that one of her kids is now officially a graduate. It will be when I get married, I guess. Just getting married, not having a wedding, because why would I spend money for just one day when I can only sign the papers. It will be when I have my kids, I am not sure about "the-giving-birth" part but yeah kids. It will be when I pay back all my loans because I rather have loans than being broke every after semesters. It will be when my kids graduate from high school or college, and I would end up exactly like my Mom.