Happiness

Since the last few days I found myself getting disturbed over insignificant instances and felt that it happens with each one of us. Therefore, one fine morning I thought of tracing happiness. I went through a journey to find it in a cottage, village, sea shore, mountains as I just wanted to find out where does happiness dwell. Does it lie in riches, strength, power or nowhere? A strange fact came in limelight which revealed that happiness has a history and a voyage of its own.  At infancy, a child finds maximum happiness in the mother’s lap. He grows, happiness walks along with him and he gets attracted towards toys and other objects. Mothers keep on screaming “come here” but he keeps on playing with the toys and at that point of time he does not like the mother’s voice as it disturbs him.  As the child grows his happiness is in his friends and other materialistic things. He further grows, gets a lucrative job, marries a beautiful woman, has beautiful children, buys a luxury car, a big house and he is happy. This is a normal corridor of happiness. However, everything does not move by the standard conventions created by us. Every journey gets interrupted and so is the journey of happiness. As soon as we face hurdles we are unhappy.   

Happiness is the sign of life. To be happy you need to have desires. You cannot progress if you do not have Desires. Desires make you run for your name, fame, money, and power. Once you are on the runway you reach at a point from where you want to fly.  You keep on achieving one or the other goal of your life but always think of more and that is prosperity. If you have no desire you are a dead soul, and the world forgets you. You are neither in the present nor in the future. No desire means death. Even God was happy when he created this wonderful world; he created the earth, the vast sea, thick forests, beautiful flowers, deserts and untouchable mountains. He admires his own creations. As we always admire our own home and want to listen from every mouth the word of appreciation. But the world does not move according to our wishes and charms and has its own course to follow.  Just if somebody does not have a high regard for us we become unhappy develop complexes, shut over selves in cocoons.  We forget that everyone has carved his own trail of his happiness and ambitions which necessarily may not match with ours. Therefore let’s be with our own desires to be alive and fill our life with happiness.  It takes a fraction of a second to be unhappy, if our body and mind are unhealthy happiness walks away. Hence to be happy we need to respect ourselves.

 Just imagine when desires change into passion we start planting the tree of hatred. This is where imbalance occurs; we choose to be corrupt, cut shortcuts, cut the roots of others. Have desires but also gain inner strength to face failures and let the happiness take its own natural path; it dwells inside us.

Just think of a child who has lost his mother, no food to eat, no shelter, he spends whole life on the footpath and finally dies. He has no desire as he cannot afford to have desires. His happiness lies in two time meals, in the shelter of a tree, few clothes, which some rich man has donated to him.  Every journey is not smooth but happiness lies even in uneven paths and depends upon how you perceive it. To me happiness is our inner strength and we have to make constant efforts to build it. During all these years I have struggled for one thing or the other but now believe it was all was futile. I now think why to be passionate but still have not achieved a saintly approach towards life. This may be the reason that I am not happy for many things for many days. No outer source can help me it has to come from inside I have to slay the “ME” which is residing so deeply inside me, once this me will go I will become happy as the whole world will be mine and happiness will be scattered ubiquitously.