I love reading quotes and phrases. There are innumerable quotes on several websites about happiness. They will give you millions of reasons to feel happy and content but are they real?I don't even know how to define happiness anymore because the definition is so convoluted.
One often finds oneself buying materialistic things thinking it's gotta make me happy like clothes, cars, electronic gadgets, house etc. One often find oneself comparing to the next well known person , thinking that if i can get what he has I will be so happy. The grass is always greener on the other side. Well i do this all the time but this sort of happiness has a very short lifespan. You eventually loose the interest in the thing you sought and then again start searching for the next best thing and then this cycle keeps on going. Its a vicious circle.
"Money can't buy you happiness ... but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery"
The real happiness lies in small that happen in our life which we tend to ignore or don't even take notice of for e.g. the day your child walked for the first time, the day your child accomplished something on his/her own for the first time, the day your wife smiled and reciprocated her love because you noticed the change in her hair style or complimented the dress she was wearing etc. We(mostly men) all complaint if the food on the table doesn't taste good but do we ever appreciate if the food is delicious. We tend to take it for granted that our better half will always make it right and that this relationship gives us the right to complaint. Instead if we change our attitude and learn to appreciate life better then it will result in an enormous change.
“You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.” ~Gandhi
Think about it............
well written and rightly written, we all co relate happiness with money and the comforts it gives but as you said happiness is state of mind, If money could bring happiness,people from the so called well off families would have been the happiest of all , But alas! this is not so.
ReplyDeleteand I have seen lots of road side dwellers laughing and enjoying with their families.
so it is a matter of your expectations, how you react to your surroundings and how much contentment you derive from what you get from life.
and it is true if we start enjoying the small smal incidences of life, or start appreciating others, or if can bring smile on others faces then surely it will give us a happy state of mind
Thanks Anju Masi
ReplyDeleteHappiness comes from within from one's own deeds.Happiness comes when you help some one who is in distress, happinesscomes when you respect elders, takecare of aprents, have faith in almighty
ReplyDeleterightly said
ReplyDeletemoney can't buy happiness
it is more related to what we feel, and how we look at things
Indeed Chetan. However we all resort to it for short term happiness
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