Saturday, July 18, 2009

A quest for happiness

What is happiness? Is it a state of mind, a broad smile in the face, a feeling of satisfaction or merely a mirage after which everyone is running.
Out of the above, my definition of happiness is a feeling of satisfaction. But now the question is satisfaction to what degree.No one is satisfied with his/her life. Everyone wants something extra to attain satisfaction.So, when should we stop.
There are so many questions, but no concrete answer.
Regarding me, i was never a happy go lucky type of person in my entire life. I am candidly accepting the fact that i was a type of person who used to ( and still) get affected by very small things - like someone did not return my copy on time, my friend called me 5 mins late, i left the last line in Chapter 2 of the English book so i will fail!. These type of things used to bother me. And now things are no different, an exaggerated form of these things are bothering me now. But is this right?
Is it right to give some thing or some person so much power that it could ruin our happiness?
Should i stop worrying about anything?
Should i just be happy no matter how strained my relations are with my loved ones.
I dn't know.
I really dn't know
But i know that i want to be desparately happy. I want to enjoy this life. I want to respect myself and pamper myself.
So let me start now my quest for happiness and let me see if this brings me close to satisfation...as i am not able to do the vice versa...

2 comments:

Brat Heart said...

1. One should be bothered about his/her day to day life and instances...but it should be of that magnitude that u stop living a normal life.

2. "Quest for happiness" is a failed term in itself...you can not find happiness in a treasure or something, you should have the ability to feel happy about small things and making things that affect you negatively even more smaller...the concept of maximization of happiness and minimization of sorrow.

3. State of Utopia has never been achieved and neither it will ever be. Even godly figures like Lord Rama had to suffer...the person who writes destinies of mortal..he could provide himself the luxury of bliss and happiness....then what are we in front of them..mere mortals...

4. We should strive to live a good life, should feel happy and make others happy, should help others and be a part of thr happiness...and only then u deserve to be happy !!

Abhishek Mishra said...

although this post of yours is little old.....but it's ditto true for me :P
tell me, if you could succeed in ur search, and give me some tips if u could :)