Our society and people have become very materialistic in this day and age. People think Happiness is all about how luxurious life we live; big cars, nice flat, fat bank balance, couple of branded accessories and dresses etc. But are we really Happy and have everything??
This is the question that strikes my mind often. Sometimes, when I look at other peoples’ life (who has more luxury than I do!) I seriously do wish if I was in their shoes. However, when I get to know them more, I feel that they are bit t lost emotionally. They have proper goals and objectives in life, but emotionally they tend to have some limitation. Celebrities can be the most ideal example, these people with name and fame portraits themselves to be very happy with all the facilities they have, party every night, tagged clothes etc. But are they really Happy??? We tend to imitate them in every aspect and start comparing our lives with theirs (feeling sad about our life!) thinking they have happy and content life than us. However, when we read about their personal life from break ups to debts almost everything ,we are drawn back for a while ; ”hey wait a minute, aren’t they suppose to be happy and have no normal problems as we have because they have everything in life one can imagine!!”.
So, what is Happiness?? Is it the materialistic definition that we have created to make our life much simpler?? People today are very conscientious and intellectual; we worship time and money thinking that it will pay off well in form of happiness and satisfaction. If this is the real happiness then, why do we get sad and upset when the people we love forget to give us a good night hug?? Or forget to ring us??Or forget our birthday cards or anniversary cards?? And if emotions matter in peoples’ life along with other materialistic elements, then why do we give more importance to materialistic elements more than our personal values??I know of a man who is very rich and have all those so called “happiness “but he is an alcoholic and gets stoned most of the time. When he is sober he is good as a gold but once he passes out, people do not even turn their back to him, He always claimed that he has everything and is very happy but I really wonder how does he feel when he is all by himself in that big house of his ??.
If we think that we have everything and are happy just because we have all these materialistic things, then, why do we moan about other things?? Do we really have everything in life Or we are just not satisfied yet with what we have?
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Because we have need and you know some of us are ungrateful (it's me, i moan about everything) With money you can buy book, but not knowledges. With money you can buy clock but not time. With money you can buy bed but not sleep and with money you can buy sex but not love :)
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Happiness is not there. And neither is it here. Happiness is not in Heaven and neither is it in the gardens of Paradise. Happiness is not Nirvana.
ReplyDeleteHappiness is simply a state of mind and often mistaken for a state of the heart.
We all live with the objective of being happy. Our lives are all different and yet the same.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, happiness should only be placed as a goal and never thought of as ever being achieved, as that will end up with discontentment as things will never be better. euphoria every so often is, however, achievable and enjoyable. go for more of those, then maybe the big happy picture wouldn't matter just as much.
ReplyDeleteYou are the only one who can make yourself happy !!
ReplyDeleteGratitude is the first step to happiness then good thinking & a bit of sucess will complement the process...
Thanks so much for all your comments . Everybodys way of seeing happiness is different , however, the gist is the same.Consolation is the main vitamin of mental state.Therefore , lets console ourself and live happily till the end!! Good luck and keep smilling!!
ReplyDeleteI think Happiness is when you satisfying with what you got and what you've done
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