In search of....
These are the words from a movie (i don't remember the name) which i watched long back. But still i remember those words, for reasons which i don't know.
Old man: I may not be a pleasent person to be around. But look at those flowers in garden, see the sun between those clouds, look at that child smiling and dancing.
What do you feel?
Boy : feel..hmm....nothing
Old man : Look at that car with the silver colour. how do you feel now?
Boy : Feels good, if i own one.
Old man : You still feel good that means you are not happy coz you do not own one.
Happiness is a funny thing. It’s a sort of carelessness, a joy that cannot truly be attributed to anything because it’s just there. Worst thing about it is, like anything else, it is also an emotion (as i started hating emotional people off late) that can be seen in a person’s eyes.
I don’t know how to find happiness. If I had an answer, it would be of no use anyways.
But, regardless of this, if a single person is able to remember something that makes him/her happy from this blog, it would be worth.
Most people attribute certain things to happiness that have done nothing to earn that respect.
First and foremost, it's Money, though it is excellent for comfort,it is not a source of happiness. Wealth is unstable. No one can be truly happy with instability. If u don't believe this then atleast you will agree that, this is what making people fear and panic around the world today.
POWER. People think that to achieve great power and influence would make them happy because, inevitably, all anyone ever strives for is happiness.
Few think, Achieving something would make them happy, would make them fulfilled, but even if one managed to take the world, happiness would still be elusive.
People drink, get married, have sex, have children, earn money, study to achieve greatness, work hard for promotions,all for a certain satisfaction which they think will make them happy.
But every attempt falls short. It eventually leads back to that hollow feeling of
before, that empty need for something called happiness.Happiness is so elusive at the same time looks funny.
That makes me think again, what is happiness? Why is it so hard to get it when we try and try and try, putting our best efforts, to get it? And this is what i think we should learn from children.
Unless circumstances force them to grow up too fast, children are the absolute personification of happiness. As I said before, happiness shows itself in their face.
These children do not know about Power, money or any of those things that we think will make us happy. But their face shows that joy to which i don't have words to explain. Their shining eyes, those innocent smiles, their curiosity... ( Hey...Even i had all these when i was a kid )
Maybe Happiness is just found in the simplest of things instead of the great complex things we try to achieve.
I was more happier playing from dawn to dusk with nothing to play other than trees and stones than those children of present living in the middle of video games, cartoons, etc.
Nothing fills me with more happiness than an early foggy morning, when the air is still cool and the outline of the sun is just beginning to show through ( though i wake up early, only twice or thrice in a year. But even if i getup, where to find that ambience in this city).
I have found more excitement in the fireworks that was happening at a fair in my hometown.
I find happiness sitting alone under a tree or near water with no one around to talk to (Ha..ha..considering the kind of person i am when people are around.)
I have seen for myself happier in the simplest things because at the end, they are the most beautiful Or that’s because nothing could ever compare to those moments Or may be that's how we were created to be.
But, Happiness is..........
Old man: I may not be a pleasent person to be around. But look at those flowers in garden, see the sun between those clouds, look at that child smiling and dancing.
What do you feel?
Boy : feel..hmm....nothing
Old man : Look at that car with the silver colour. how do you feel now?
Boy : Feels good, if i own one.
Old man : You still feel good that means you are not happy coz you do not own one.
Happiness is a funny thing. It’s a sort of carelessness, a joy that cannot truly be attributed to anything because it’s just there. Worst thing about it is, like anything else, it is also an emotion (as i started hating emotional people off late) that can be seen in a person’s eyes.
I don’t know how to find happiness. If I had an answer, it would be of no use anyways.
But, regardless of this, if a single person is able to remember something that makes him/her happy from this blog, it would be worth.
Most people attribute certain things to happiness that have done nothing to earn that respect.
First and foremost, it's Money, though it is excellent for comfort,it is not a source of happiness. Wealth is unstable. No one can be truly happy with instability. If u don't believe this then atleast you will agree that, this is what making people fear and panic around the world today.
POWER. People think that to achieve great power and influence would make them happy because, inevitably, all anyone ever strives for is happiness.
Few think, Achieving something would make them happy, would make them fulfilled, but even if one managed to take the world, happiness would still be elusive.
People drink, get married, have sex, have children, earn money, study to achieve greatness, work hard for promotions,all for a certain satisfaction which they think will make them happy.
But every attempt falls short. It eventually leads back to that hollow feeling of
before, that empty need for something called happiness.Happiness is so elusive at the same time looks funny.
That makes me think again, what is happiness? Why is it so hard to get it when we try and try and try, putting our best efforts, to get it? And this is what i think we should learn from children.
Unless circumstances force them to grow up too fast, children are the absolute personification of happiness. As I said before, happiness shows itself in their face.
These children do not know about Power, money or any of those things that we think will make us happy. But their face shows that joy to which i don't have words to explain. Their shining eyes, those innocent smiles, their curiosity... ( Hey...Even i had all these when i was a kid )
Maybe Happiness is just found in the simplest of things instead of the great complex things we try to achieve.
I was more happier playing from dawn to dusk with nothing to play other than trees and stones than those children of present living in the middle of video games, cartoons, etc.
Nothing fills me with more happiness than an early foggy morning, when the air is still cool and the outline of the sun is just beginning to show through ( though i wake up early, only twice or thrice in a year. But even if i getup, where to find that ambience in this city).
I have found more excitement in the fireworks that was happening at a fair in my hometown.
I find happiness sitting alone under a tree or near water with no one around to talk to (Ha..ha..considering the kind of person i am when people are around.)
I have seen for myself happier in the simplest things because at the end, they are the most beautiful Or that’s because nothing could ever compare to those moments Or may be that's how we were created to be.
But, Happiness is..........
posted by mohan at
7:41 AM
