Everybody needs a happy place. Whether you're stressed about work, or school, or your home life. Whatever is causing you stress in your life, you need a happy place to get away from it. Your happy place is the one place in the world that you can escape from the world.

According to urban dictionary, a happy place is: "The mental state achieved when one wants to avoid the unpleasant or uncomfortable. Everyone's happy place is different, and usually consists of the things that make them joyous."

Everyone's happy place is different. Your happy place may be your room. Or on the top of a mountain. Or on a edge of a wave on a surfboard. Or in the middle of nowhere on a snowmobile. Your happy place could be anywhere in the world. Your happy place could be with other people, or completely and utterly alone. Your happy place could be two minutes from home, or thousands of miles away. The only criteria: it makes you so happy you forget about all of your other worries.

I have found my happy place; or rather, it found me. My happy place is my camp on Sandy Pond. No place makes me happier. I swear that if I were to travel the world, visit every place that's on my bucket list (Italy, Greece, Ireland, Paris), I would still never find a place that makes me as happy as my camp makes me. My camp is the one place on planet earth that I can go to and forget about every stress in life. My camp is the one place I can go to that will fill me with such happiness that I could never leave and I would be completely content.

The reason why you need a happy place is simple: when nothing is going right, when life seems to be beating you up, when you're stressed out of your mind; you need a place that you can go to that will make everything right again. And even when you can't go there right in that stressful moment, you can think about it, and peace will fill your thoughts.

So if you haven't found a happy place yet, go searching. Go searching for that one place that makes you feel like you're floating. That one place where the air seems to be filled with some sort of substance that makes you feel almost drunk on happiness. Search for that place, and when you find it, hold on to it.