Happiness – The Only Goal in Life

The first and the foremost Question that comes in to my mind is … What really is “Happiness”? Is the thing or the result or is it something which only rich can have or is it the small things we experience daily!!

In this very world, everyone work for the sake of happiness, thinking that it’s the only goal in life. But what happiness really is? Did you ever thought about it. Is it achieving what you feel, will be providing you the happiness; or is it the result of the completion of task? Everyone has a different definition of happiness. Precisely according to my study, what I felt was that people think happiness is the completion of work, achieving goals, making fun of others, being popular and many more. Everyone is mainly concentrated on the final product of their hard work. But is that the only stuff in the world that provide happiness? Is the surrounding not involved in our endeavor of happiness!! So why should the happiness be connected or I would say why the happiness should depend on success of the work, why not on the way, the path or the people working with us??

Precisely, “Happiness” is not connected only to the final product or the result of some hard work. In fact it is the feeling with in you. It is something which should be felt by everyone in daily today life. Even the smallest thing can give you happiness if you dare to feel so and be out of the box. Happiness is everywhere, it’s just needed to be felt. It is there in Smile of the child. Did you ever saw a baby smiling without any reason??  That’s the beauty of their mind, they can imagine things, and their creativity makes them feel happiness in everything. Even looking at the rising Sun, can give you some sort of happiness. The beautiful weather, awesome looking sky are some of it.

As we grow up our mind freezes. You must be thinking “What the hell, how can our mind freeze?” In simple and straight words, freezes means that our life goals are so tightly arranged that we stop feeling the happiness. We just concentrate on what we want, we don’t think about the path we follow to achieve; will that be full of fun and happiness or am I just going to hurt others, or am I just acting like a small child who needs a thing but don’t know the right and the wrong. What could be the reason that our mind freeze? There’s a big list.. But the most common being pressure by society, elders, secure future, jealousy, and more. We are so driven by the thoughts of others which we are hearing since our childhood. We heard that happiness can only be achieved when you win or gain something, and we heard this so many times that it got imprinted within our brains and we accepted it as the truth of life. In simple words, out mind or I should say brain is coagulated with the thoughts imprinted within our brain not the truth of life.

Completion of task gives happiness but does this happiness remains forever or are we able to cherish the same moment of success again and again?? No, we can’t cherish same success again and again. This process of goal is not going to be over for your whole life. Setting goals and achieving them is the phase of life which can’t be overlooked. Once you achieve a goal then you are going to set a new one and will move on to the journey to achieve it. So, most of the time of ur life you are going to work only to achieve goals which will give u only few moments of happiness then why don’t we enjoy the path we follow and be happy for most of the time?

Happiness is something that should be felt within. For example, we should be enjoying with different people, use creativity and imagination, be more of open to everything and can take on stuffs, no jealousy, no ego… Sometimes silence, meditation, exercising (provides a healthy body resulting in healthy mind making you feel happy) etc. can make you feel happy. Never run for happiness, it will come to you if you are true to yourself and accept things instead of having ego issues. A famous Quotes states “You should follow F.L.Y. (First Love Yourself, Other’s will come next) in your life to be happy”. It means if you are not able to love yourself then how can you love others? There will be a space for jealousy, ego issues, clashes etc. Thus, happiness is spoiled by those issues which can be easily minimized or completely avoided.

Thus, we all need to stop for some time and think about the present and the things or the moments we are losing day by day. Someone said that "WORRYING DOES NOT TAKE AWAY TOMORROW’S TROUBLE, IT TAKES AWAY TODAY'S PEACE." So, stop worrying and start enjoying the life along with the sincerity in work.