Staying happy is the key mantra to decipher the biggest mystery called “LIFE”!
It doesn’t take much!
A kilogram of smile, a fresh emotion and the will to stay happy can be called the pillars of sustenance in this nerve wrecking and the so called ‘busy world’ of ours. Jimmy doesn’t have time to hug his mother, nor does Nina know how to greet her elders. This super fast world has not left an iota of space for mediocrity and you’ve got to prove your wits in any arena you step. Put the word ‘value’ in front of a teen and pat will come the answer – “You talking about the face value or the monetary value?” This is exactly where we all stand. Somewhere in the run to make our pockets heavy and own the Mercedes, we’ve forgotten to smile, to joke, to laugh and to enjoy the small joys of life.
Wish the meaning and true essence of happiness could be explained in the books and the people could understand the importance of staying alive at one’s heart. The world seems to be overloaded with drudgery, sadness and melancholy that seem to prevail incessantly in all walks of one’s life. Adjustments have become a thing of the past and it’s all about forcing your way through everything, to get success by hook or crook as they say it. Who has the time to look back once at his family and children while leaving for work, who has the time to call on someone just to share a little gossip or more so, who has the time to look at a stranger and give him a pleasing smile.
The world has grown to be everything about “I, Me and Myself!” All want to outperform their capacity to carve out a niche for themselves in this highly competitive and ruthless world.
What to do?
Happiness can be derived from the smallest things of life. It can be the contentment of solving a problem or the emotion of helping someone, making a great card for your dad or gifting yourself your favorite perfume. Self awareness can also expedite the complete process to a great extent. If one has the discretionary ability to judge what’s right and what’s wrong for oneself, one would never have to frown.
“Wishing for more is excellent, but craving for the same is equivalent to a sin. “....
It doesn’t take much!
A kilogram of smile, a fresh emotion and the will to stay happy can be called the pillars of sustenance in this nerve wrecking and the so called ‘busy world’ of ours. Jimmy doesn’t have time to hug his mother, nor does Nina know how to greet her elders. This super fast world has not left an iota of space for mediocrity and you’ve got to prove your wits in any arena you step. Put the word ‘value’ in front of a teen and pat will come the answer – “You talking about the face value or the monetary value?” This is exactly where we all stand. Somewhere in the run to make our pockets heavy and own the Mercedes, we’ve forgotten to smile, to joke, to laugh and to enjoy the small joys of life.
Wish the meaning and true essence of happiness could be explained in the books and the people could understand the importance of staying alive at one’s heart. The world seems to be overloaded with drudgery, sadness and melancholy that seem to prevail incessantly in all walks of one’s life. Adjustments have become a thing of the past and it’s all about forcing your way through everything, to get success by hook or crook as they say it. Who has the time to look back once at his family and children while leaving for work, who has the time to call on someone just to share a little gossip or more so, who has the time to look at a stranger and give him a pleasing smile.
The world has grown to be everything about “I, Me and Myself!” All want to outperform their capacity to carve out a niche for themselves in this highly competitive and ruthless world.
What to do?
Happiness can be derived from the smallest things of life. It can be the contentment of solving a problem or the emotion of helping someone, making a great card for your dad or gifting yourself your favorite perfume. Self awareness can also expedite the complete process to a great extent. If one has the discretionary ability to judge what’s right and what’s wrong for oneself, one would never have to frown.
“Wishing for more is excellent, but craving for the same is equivalent to a sin. “....
Radz-The Philosopher
Being in your self decided boundaries is a must if you wish to stay happy. Always try choosing a career that involves your interest. Aptitude should be given a backseat at this time as interest can breed aptitude, but the vice versa is not quite true. Try involving yourself in activities that make you smile. It could anything from exercising at the gym, spending time with apartment children, drawing, surfing the net or talking to your best pal. Take out certain time of the day to read through your favorite book or put up your best make-up. Meet up regularly with your friends or spend a night under the stars with your loved ones. Experiment with as many things possible as it will open newer doors and it’ll undoubtedly help you explore the inner instincts of creativity.
Just shut your mind and heart to the false that is prevalent in the world and create a world of your own that is practical and in which you always remain smiling. Do not postpone tasks and hence, this doing will help you recover from any problem much faster. Never sleep with a doubt in your mind and always plan out things and try working the plan out.
Happiness is the world and this world is yours! Keep Smiling!
Being in your self decided boundaries is a must if you wish to stay happy. Always try choosing a career that involves your interest. Aptitude should be given a backseat at this time as interest can breed aptitude, but the vice versa is not quite true. Try involving yourself in activities that make you smile. It could anything from exercising at the gym, spending time with apartment children, drawing, surfing the net or talking to your best pal. Take out certain time of the day to read through your favorite book or put up your best make-up. Meet up regularly with your friends or spend a night under the stars with your loved ones. Experiment with as many things possible as it will open newer doors and it’ll undoubtedly help you explore the inner instincts of creativity.
Just shut your mind and heart to the false that is prevalent in the world and create a world of your own that is practical and in which you always remain smiling. Do not postpone tasks and hence, this doing will help you recover from any problem much faster. Never sleep with a doubt in your mind and always plan out things and try working the plan out.
Happiness is the world and this world is yours! Keep Smiling!
6 comments:
Great philosophy, Radhu Dear. Honestly, life has changed greatly, human element is lost in today's fast paced life. Happiness and being happy, these things have eluded us only because we are seeking happiness in materialistic means. Nobody wishes to look inwards for that internal peace, harmony and happiness. The small joys of life-blooming flowers, nature in its full glory, colourful butterflies emerging out of the cocoons, innocent smiles on children's faces ..........and may such thing matters no more.
Still, I am optimistic as I see people helping out each other during natural calamities, the colony sweeper doing his work diligently, people facing life bravely in the most tough times and I start believing in happiness all over again!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hats off Radhika............
u've highlited a very bitter truth of todays life.happiness is really being overlooked n ur attempt to put fwd this point is very nice ......... i agree with u totally n pity those who fail to extract joy n happiness out of every small thing in life........
hope ur views reach to all those who really require to look within n think seriously about being happy........
CHEERS TO U N UR HAPPINESS MANTRA..
Happiness is world nd taht world is yrs..Gr8 Funda..Keep it up
Hello,
Oh! This time it's three days after! Probably it'll be so for quite some time...
Well, I have some philosophy too, though as usual, you will strongly disagree with me... :)
Happiness, according to me, is an illusion, just as most emotions are. Ultimately, it all boils down to how you define your life. IF I define my life's purpose only in terms of professional goals, I will be happy only if I achieve success in my profession. On the other hand, if I define life in terms of social activity and "values" that my school teachers taught me, I will find life meaningful, for example when I donate blood to a person, whom probably I never hope to meet again.
Perhaps, this ability of defining purpose of life by ourselves is one characteristic that defines an apparent freewill.
Neo
Hello,
This is reply to your comments for my post. As I told you earlier, I get no time at all these days. Work Work and Work. (I get break only half a day per week, sunday afternoon.... :( ). So late reply...
Well, Do you think our consciousness is engineered? I used that word intentionally- there is a difference between engineering and evolution, i believe( or to be more precisely I would like to believe) our consciousness belongs latter. However the question was not of utility, but of difference. Whole of my argument was centered around one thing. Do machines have consciousness? Just for the sake of argument, assume they have. Then we would like machines to behave in ways like a human might behave. We may expect them to have emotions and express them. But why should we expect them to show human emotions (or at least similar to that)? After all, most human emotions can be traced down to activities of chemicals in the brain/ or specific neural network pattern in the brain. This implies our emotions or intellectual existence is defined by the consequence of chemical laws. Similarly the machines, which are built on laws of physics, (and of course Mathematics), will have their own reflection of consciousness in a form probably we, the carbon based chemical systems may not understand.
I heard somewhere the following.
The absence of evidence is NOT evidence for absence.
Neo
The first 2 paras were pretty good. Well thought and neatly penned. Towards the end I thought it got preachy....philopsophy would be taking cognizance of things in and around....preaching is propagating a solution. And as Neo said....we all define our life and consequently happiness in our own unique manner. :)
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