Saturday, 7 June 2008

Chasing Happiness

What is happiness? Am I happy ? What should I do to be happy forever? In what way I can actually attain happiness. Does true Happiness exists? These are some of the questions that we all ask ourself.

No man is happy, who does not think himself so. A wise person says “Happiness at best, can be understood as a state of mind”. To be happy we do not need to look here and there. It is something that exists within all of us inside. If one really wants to be happy, it is necessary to abstain oneself from complaining about the past, or the present and the future. If one can’t overcome this habit, he/she ruins their past, present and the future. And this becomes the major reason for not being able to enjoy all three of them.

We ourself are the best source of happiness. What matters the most is not what matters to us, what matters is how we actually perceive the matters that happens to us.

To be very true I think happiness cannot be achieved through wordly comforts. We can only attain happiness if we over come all our desires and sorrows.

As well said “ Happiness is not the station you arrive at, but a manner one travelers”. Happiness is everything and above all. Who would not like to make his happiness eternal? But for that, man will have to give up running after transient goals and seek the eternal one. That is not easy in the face of wordly temptations.

For different people Happiness has different meanings. For me Happiness is liking what to do as well as doing what you like. It lies in finding something positive even in something negative. Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete happiness. One can be happy in his life, if one uses his capacities and capabilities to the greatest extent.

Aparana Chauhan

1 comment:

SHUBHAJIT said...

We can only attain happiness if we over come all our desires and sorrows.”

Rightly said but not eulogistic until we leave everything. Only thing we can do is ,asking no return from anyone. That will bring happiness. Also meditation helps to attain bliss. I experience immense happiness in meditative state because in that mental state I don’t have any desire, no emotional attachment with anyone. I agree with you that thinking about past,present and future invite unhappiness. Think in a different way. Don’t you feel nice when you listen to your favourite sad song? Why? Because happiness is always hidden in sadness. So feel nice and enlightented with your past and forgive everything and everyone. There is always a new start.