Happiness is a state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Everyone seeks happiness but, most of us define happiness based on some conditions. The big question is how to achieve happiness? What can we do to feel the happiness we crave for? I feel happiness is a state of mind that can be achieved by spreading joy and being in the present moment.
A very important aspect of happiness is, if we see people around us happy and some action of ours is the cause of their happiness, we will feel joyous. As an example, if we helped our mom with some work like taking her to market to buy grocery or helped her in household work, In that case she will be happy because we helped her with her work and in return we will experience contentment knowing we were the reason for her smile. Hence helping someone may it be at home, school, workplace, while traveling, anywhere we find someone in need of our help; the proactive action of ours will make us glad that we did something worthy for someone.
Being in the present is very important to feel the bliss. This is apparent from the fact that past and future always make us worried. If we think about the past we end up living the past again and if we think about the future we get perturbed by endless possibilities of future. So live in the present moment and enjoy every moment knowing that the present moment cannot be repeated like the repeat telecast of some show.
Helpful gestures by us and being in the present moment can fill us with immense pleasure so that we can stay happy forever.
Stay happy, keep smiling. :-)
Good one again..We know these small things..but tend to forget with time..thanks for brushing it up dear :)
ReplyDeleteNice write-up stating two very wise lessons of life - Living in present & finding your happiness in other's. :)
ReplyDelete@ shivam :-) We cannot be happy if we depend on others for it... we feel happy if we feel calm and centered fully aware of self.. in such a tranquil state we can do some act of kindness which help us preserving our basic nature...
ReplyDeletewell said.. i do agree..
ReplyDeletebe happy and let others happy :)
What I said was about finding your happiness in other's happiness as well. I do agree with you that the only perpetual source of happiness lies within us. We should not be dependent on others for our happiness.
ReplyDeleteWell laid out article.Just a minor addon to the afore metioned views ..contentment is also a way to be happy.as v need to keep in our mind dat v r just prgrammed creatures of the Omnipresent,the Omnipotent n the Omniscient with limited validity .We came into dis world with empty hand n will go out empty handed .So help others,help thyself,n see god everywhere along with us smiling all d way.Lif laughs at us wen v r unhappy,but smiles at us wen v r happy.
ReplyDeleteSo b content wid wat u hav n live every moment becoz dis particular moment may never come again in our life.Last but not d least i wanna say THANK U GOD 4 dis lif.May i find path the path 2 salvation so dat i can rest in ur feet.