Being Happy
What is happiness? The question when I ask to myself makes
me think of a handful of people around me. My mom, dad, sister and friends. I
share my joy, sorrow, pain, fear and all other kind of emotions with them.
Their absence make me feel a loner while their presence makes me smile, gives
me satisfaction, a support, a sense of belonging.
Happiness is fuzzy in nature. It is a state of mind of a
person. It varies from person to person and also with situations. A kid may get
ecstatic at the end of the day when his father gets him a chocolate. A mother
feels blissful when she finds her baby smiling. A grandfather is overjoyed when
his grand children spend the entire day with him. The art of happiness has no
boundaries and can occur anytime anywhere.
Then what exactly it feels when someone close to you leaves
you? The state of equilibrium in which you are, suddenly is disturbed. Our mind
acts rationally to make us understand the reality, while heart cries to
question the reality, the creator.
Now let us take a step ahead and think for a while. Maslow
has wonderfully explained that each individual has a need for existence. At the
initial stage he is more into fulfilling his basic needs. But as he climbs up
the ladder and tries and finds out the meaning and the purpose of his life, he finally
reaches a stage of self actualization when all the other needs become volatile.
This state of mind where he realizes his own self gives him the ultimate
happiness.
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