Are you happy? Ask this question to hundred people. You may find very few affirmative answers. Why are we unhappy? All of us? Ask these people what makes them happy. You may expect different answers. Like a new mobile (my son is waiting for one after I spoilt the old one with water), a bigger house, a bigger car, a better job etc etc. Ask these same people after they get these things are they happy. Their list will include new objects of desire.
But why am I writing this? Am I happy? Yes, as long as I am writing this. So my happiness lies in writing blogs which no one reads, no one knows it exists. But there are other things which make me happy also, like eating something really tasty, reading a very nice book, writing some program which noone has asked me to write etc. After 44 loong years and head full of grey hairs, I have atleast realised that material things do not make me happy.
Read somewhere that good people are not necessarily happy, but only happy people can be good. Now if I say I am good, I must accept that I am happy. On the other hand, I say I am terribly sad, I must accept that I am not good. Which is better?
But one more realisation is internet is having many good sites which really make you happy. THe reason may be is you may find people with similar interests and that makes you happy. Is that what happiness is? We feel happy because we feel we are not abnormal in thinking thus and there are many people like us and our feelings are legitimate? We feel happy with our children because we see ourselves in them. So the entire concept of happiness is egocentric?
But why am I writing this? Am I happy? Yes, as long as I am writing this. So my happiness lies in writing blogs which no one reads, no one knows it exists. But there are other things which make me happy also, like eating something really tasty, reading a very nice book, writing some program which noone has asked me to write etc. After 44 loong years and head full of grey hairs, I have atleast realised that material things do not make me happy.
Read somewhere that good people are not necessarily happy, but only happy people can be good. Now if I say I am good, I must accept that I am happy. On the other hand, I say I am terribly sad, I must accept that I am not good. Which is better?
But one more realisation is internet is having many good sites which really make you happy. THe reason may be is you may find people with similar interests and that makes you happy. Is that what happiness is? We feel happy because we feel we are not abnormal in thinking thus and there are many people like us and our feelings are legitimate? We feel happy with our children because we see ourselves in them. So the entire concept of happiness is egocentric?
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