The amount of happiness in ones life depends on the way every individual deals with things in their day-to-day lives. You could either be super positive like Spongebob and deal with all things in a happy-go-lucky manner or be the complete opposite and always look at the negative side of things or aspects of life.
Happiness is not always obtained from materialistic and expensive things. At times it can even be the smallest of things which can bring about a perfect COLGATE smile on ones face. For a small kid a bar of chocolate could mean the world to him/her. Even for someone like me a yummy meal can bring happiness to me instantly.
Another very important thing that one should keep in mind is that one should be satisfied with what ever they have and never hope for more. It is satisfaction and the no-more-than-required attitude which helps to keep a person happy. Compare your lifestyle and situation to that of the poor and miserable conditions being faced by the poor in countries like Somalia where they don't even have regular square meals. So always be satisfied with what you have and never expect any returns.
Okay so since i must have tired you all with this boring blog here are a few jokes to cheer you guys up after my depressing blog :-
Q. What happens if you eat yeast and shoe polish ?
A. Every morning you will rise and shine!
Q. What do you get from a pampered cow?
A. Spoiled milk.
Q. Whats the difference between a guitar and a fish ?
A. You can't tuna fish.
The jokes xD
ReplyDeleteAnd a good post :)
I completely agree.
DeleteI know where these jokes are coming from. You bought that "book of jokes", right Shahzad?
DeleteFrankly, I found the first line more humorous than the Q 'n A's.
And as for "the essence of happiness", I feel that when we are subjected to constraints, and we come up with something creative within them – that's happiness.
NOTE: I'm writing this a few minutes after midnight, so the date's changed. Please assume all dates are with respect to March 4, 2014. In other words, if I write "today", I mean March 4, 2014, and if I write "yesterday", I mean 3 March 2014. (You get the idea, I'm sure.)
For example, the previous day, Adharsh (Suresh) had asked me for the book that had ended up in my bag on the last day before school exams in Class 11. Adharsh replied to the email I'd sent him (asking him how I should return his book to him) only a day before Class 12 (day before yesterday).
I couldn't find the book on the day before the day before yesterday, but I sought to find it yesterday. So I looked around in random (but probable) places, and I couldn't find it.
And then, in Sherlock-Holmes style, it struck me. Through pure deduction I conjectured that the book must've been misplaced to where there were other books that looked similar. In other words, it must be where I keep empty 4QR registers.
And voilà! It was exactly where I thought I would find it, and could (then) remember the whole story of how and when I'd misplaced it (thinking it was an empty register).
Well, that realisation gave me immense happiness. I worked under the constraint of misinformation (I didn't know where the book was), and that spark of creativity in deducing the location of that book is something that I didn't believe I was capable of (until yesterday).
Like I said, that gave me immense happiness (not to mention, satisfaction).
I think happiness and satisfaction are subtly related. Don't you think so, Shahzad (and Obada)?