Happiness, the main Theme of life
Actually I was very depressed from a few days. I went outside and explore some places and at last I understand what's the main theme of life, what's our destination of life, what do we want in our future of life.
At the end of the day we want to lead a happy life. Happiness is our main goal. We wish to lead a happy life with our families,relatives and friends. And for this purpose we want to do something for better life. But we are in the wrong way to get happiness. We ourselves want to be happy in our own lives. That's why we can't find happiness, cause we became selfish in this regard.
Our life is full of desires and wishes. We always seek for happiness. But happiness is not available outside rather it is obtained from our inner self.
There is no limit to our pleasures. After traveling on a bus we think that we are not able to travel in a private car. On the other hand if you travel in that, sometimes you feel why we won't able to travel on a flight. That's why we are losing our happiness in the pursuits of the more and more desires. These are common in everyone's life.
Some other examples are given below. A beggar sitting on a street, or before mosques or temples feels very happy by seeing a Rs.10/= note thinking that he earned for his breakfast or lunch. A rich man having lots of money thinks of adding more in it while eating his breakfast without enjoying the food he is having.
A person who worked or struggled from the morning to evening for his livelihood without hoping any selected amount of money will have dinner while enjoying the food with his wife and children. But a rich man whose profit is about millions will be worrying while having a glass of beer alone in his room thinking how can he earn more? What makes the difference? Where is the secret lying?
That's the Contentment. Which is nothing but being satisfied with what we have. Generally, it is the tendency or nature of human beings to compare them with others and getting worried about their facilities.
But we should try to recognize what we have and appreciate what we have. This gives a satisfaction and we feel contended. Generally, we all think that happiness gets influenced by outside factors but it is our inner thinking which gives us the contentment and happiness.
How can we get Contentment? We need to discover the deep hidden wealth of love and affection inside us. These thing are inside everybody. But one has to know it and feel it.
We should do the work without expecting anything in return, try to love the work what we are doing, not to compare the work we are doing and the money we are getting. Whatever we prefer that will come to us. Once we keep this in mind, we feel happy with the end result and feel that we have done a great job.
We have to be happy and be friendly with our family. Also here as a human being, we have a tendency to compare ourselves with the surrounding people and neighbors. We try to compare what they have and what we don't have. Whether we should be happy with what we have and be thankful to the Almighty. We need to be thankful for the food we are eating as it is ours. There are many people who are not even blessed with this food. We should think about the lower class than ours. Also try to keep them happy.
Look at our families and the love and affection they are showing at us.
Please feel that our life is the biggest gift to us. We should plan to lead our lives with the available resources and make a path and travel. We shouldn't compare with others. We also have to make a good personality. Thus contentment will give us the ultimate happiness.