HAPPINESS….What do we mean by
happiness or let us put it in this way- what brings happiness to us?
We would say that money can bring
happiness. We can buy anything we wish for, we can visit any place we desire
for and can acquire any comfort we want to avail for. So money can fulfil all
our wishes, wants and desires and hence it brings happiness. But the question is- Does it really happens
so?
Let us try to understand it by
means of a short story.
One day there was a man sitting
on sea shore enjoying serene beauty of the nature and peace of the place. A
businessman visited there for vacation. He used to observe this man daily doing
the same thing for entire day.
One fine day out of curiosity, he
asked him- “why don’t you work inspite of spending time sitting idle daily?”
The man asked-“What will happen next?” The businessman said-“You can do
fishing, sell fishes in the market and earn good amount out of it.” The man
asked-“What will happen next?” Then he said-“You will be able to buy good food
and clothes for your family from that money”. Man asked- “What will happen
next?” He said-“Then you can expand and deliver fishes in nearby market”. He asked
again-“What will happen next?” The businessman said-“You can keep people under
you and cater more market needs and have more fishing and make more money out
of it” The man again asked the same question. So then he said-“You can become
an entrepreneur with a big empire and you can fulfil all your wishes, wants and
desires”. The man again asked-“what will happen next?’ The businessman
excitedly said-“Then you can chill out, enjoy and relax just like me.” On this,
the man said-“Sir, I m doing the same currently.”
So, happiness is all about the
satisfaction that we feel. Our degree of happiness depends on degree of
satisfaction that we keep in our life. A person’s wishes, wants and desires have
no end. A walking person will desire for cycle, a person with cycle will desire
for a scooter, a person with a scooter will desire for car, a person with car
will desire for SUV and the chain will keep on moving in the same pattern.
In hustle of these desires, we
forget living, we forget the happiness of being with our near ones, we forget
happiness of discovering ourselves, we forget happiness of the things that we
already have, we forget the happiness of being physically fine, we forget to
cherish THE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS ITSELF and get engrossed in achieving the
material things in our lives.
“Happiness is not out there;
It is in YOU”…”
There are so many beautiful
reasons to be happy. Let us choose TO BE HAPPY rather than keep on running
behind our desires which are endless. Let us live and cherish each moment of
our life as -
Zindagi na milegi doobara…
