HUMAN HUNT FOR HAPPINESS

Happiness is an “inevitable desire” of every human being. It’s so because all human beings wish to be happy always.  But these kinds of desires are not fulfilled in every moment. We need to be happy, at the same time sadness comes on its way.  Some pretend to be happy while some create happiness out of nothing.  Some are born sad, stay sad, make others sad and die out of sadness.  In spite of all this, nobody wishes to remain sad or be sad.  What is so attractive in happiness?  It can be had any time without a doctor’s prescription. 

A feeling that is partly intangible but creates tangible changes around the world- that is happiness.  The action and intension that gives happiness to an individual or a group could be a reason for dismal for others.  While gaining Moksha, leaving behind all that is materialistic seems to bring grater happiness.  Hence it could be identified that happiness has got various degrees like little, great, sometimes, always etc. and so on. We have got no instrument to gauge the extent of happiness.

Though only a few, we find people who seem to be always happy.  How can we know whether they are really happy or just seem to be happy?  I knew one boy who was well known by all the people in his surroundings.  He was merry in all his ways.  Trying to make every moment happy, he had an aura surrounding him.  It attracted many to be always with him.  Lately we knew that he suffered from cancer stage 4, struggling final days of his life.  But until the day he was no more, no one else knew about it.  He seemed to be happy and tried to be happy but was he really happy?  He must be admired for the way he handled a turbulent situation in life.

We would find men working 24x7 like ants to gather resources without caring for their life at that moment.  They sacrifice their good time expecting a great time ahead, but what awaits them is whole lot of sickness, despair and loneliness at the later stages of their life in many cases. So we need to be different by being happy at every moment and working for making future also happy.  Never search for happiness elsewhere, since it is never outside but is within us, just wake it up.  Don’t ever give yourself a chance to be dismal upon the reasons of this materialistic world.