Sometimes i ponder what we actually want from our life? Does all of us have a definite goal? Or just we’re flowing with time, not destined, not specific. However, after much scratching and brainstorming, i got to know that all of us actually want to be happy, and rest of it is just a mirage. We often says about ambition, career and above all chasing money like a mad dog but does all those hard work bring little calm to our soul? Perhaps no, but the irony is that we are all enlightened from our heart but not elucidate our wisdom through our practice.
So what is actually a happiness? Nobody can define happiness. Different people find the essence of happiness in different things. Some think that money can buy all the happiness, but are proved wrong. Others find happiness in the company of people. Some among them seek happiness in the company of a particular person. They think love is the root of all happiness. The jury is still out on that. Given the rates of divorce, marriage, if not love, is often found to be the source of great misery. A pertinent question is how important is happiness in human life? Wouldn’t we become complacent and lazy if we were happy? Also, can one be happy in our country, where people are starving, fighting diseases, illiteracy and corruption? Perhaps, NO. I read that people living in Norway are the happiest because of the rate of growth of GDP and literacy coupled with low birth rate. Happiness eludes easy comprehension. It lies within us and yet, depends on our circumstances. One thing is sure, for most of us, happiness is the ultimate goal. I can only recall one appropriate quote to close my “frenzy” discussion.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger’s garden.
3 comments:
Hmm... Shubhajit, I don't know abt others but one need to have a definite goal in his/her life.
That keeps you moving, no matter how many hurdles come on ur way.
Now I don't want you to confuse GOAL with any materialistic thing; an objective can be as simple as
bringing smile on somebody face....
One of the indictments of the civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. Am I right Shubhajit ....
"Happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."
Despite it is a sheer fact, I daresay, I disagree, Aparna.
Intelligent people are strongly capable of sucking happiness from melancholy of their life; the same way perhaps Shakepeare let Ajax do it in "As You Like It."
Well, forget all litary commotions. The topic is too tough to be discussed in nutshell. I think, Shubhajit should have chosen any one aspect of Happiness to deal with in the article. Then, it would have been better for us to open our lips widely.
Goals, love, lust, money, family, relationships, material wanting, according to me, are just some of the external elements of a psychological phenomenon called happiness.
Happiness, in truth, is something different lying too deep within us, which make your eye gleam and heart puff.
And whether it is happiness or anger, silence should be its best companion. LOL!
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