Happiness

Wiseman once told me, ‘we can be happy when we conquer ourselves and not the world and we can be happy because we love the world and not ourselves’. It is almost by default humans can portray a strong dichotomy between our inner and outer self. Humans have the ability not to show our inner self. Happiness is the expression of our inner self or soul. It is true that only our pillow knows whether we are happy or not. The fundamental question is ‘what is that makes my inner self-comfortable?’ Therefore, happiness is truly experienced from within oneself. Can a person be considered happy when he smiles and laughs with others?

In this consumeristic world, happiness means stimulating our senses. This is portrayed by consumer advertisements such as ‘a way of true happiness’ or ‘you deserve to be happy’ or ‘your happiness is our goal’ etc. We are enveloped in a consumeristic world where we are told what to do to be happy. We are fall prey for these empty promises in the false premise of happiness. Therefore, happiness is limited to only sensuality and not the integrity of the human being.

Material things can give us comfort and a comfortable life can give us happiness. On the other hand, minimum material things also can give us comforts and hence happiness. For some family can give happiness and for others, the family might be a place of sadness. Given these above experiences of life, we can say that happiness is relative, and it can differ to everyone. Although there are fancy definition and steps to happiness, there is no magic formula to happiness. Happiness is measured by how comfortable your soul or inner self is. This is known to you only and only you can show your happiness to others. Mature people know their source of happiness and they can feel that true happiness in the inner sanctuary of life. Happiness also can be a long run or short run. It can differ each day and each year. In conclusion, it is important to search for happiness within than without. We must make our inner self the sanctuary of happiness and from this sanctuary, we can emulate happiness. Our inner self will be our true self because we do not always show our true feelings in our outer self. Lastly, let us sit back in a quiet zone and feel our inner self to probe our happiness. This is an art and must be practised especially in our noisy world.