What is happyness?

I now realise that ever since i remember myself i tried to be happy. To do things that would make me happy. Either that was buying a new toy, either having an ice-cream or candy, watching my favorite cartoon...And as i was growing older it switched to be getting a good grade in a test, buying new clothes, buying new shoes, having expensive highlights and the list goes on and on. As i got older my happyness was based in a materialistic patern, which was actually growing with a geometric progression.

Up to that day, not very long ago, which changed my entire life. Untill cancer hit my family. Now my life is divided into two periods. The 'Pre-Cancer' period and the 'Post-Cancer' period. Now my definition of happyness has changed. Now my happyness is rotated around a word. Remission. Every time i see a doctor i only hope i will hear this word. This is what's can make me happy now. Buying clothes is not fun anymore, buying expensive handbags neither.

For me, happyness is now defined as knowing that my younger brother will live to be 1000 years old. That he is soon going to be free of all that pain this terrible illness is causing him, and he will be soon the young man i know. Full of energy. Full of life. Full od dreams about his future.

I keep thinking that it is so hard for him to fight this illness. But he is not alone in this battle. I am fighting with him, my sister fights with him, my parents are figthing with him, his fiance fights with him, my 10 month old son is fighting with him. My aunt is fighting as well as my cousins. It is very difficult to fight an invisible enemy, especially when it lives inside my brother's body. But if cancer could understand this is what i would say 'You can't win this battle, we are too many fighting you. And you will be defeated. So you better go away as soon as you can.'

My definition of happyness is my brother's remission. What's yours?