When we talk of happiness, we necessarily talk of sadness as well because they are like day and night. Both follow each other unfailingly and give meaning to our very existence on this planet.
The other day, when I was trying to get a sense of the title of the book, The Illicit Happiness of Other People, by Manu Joseph, I was lost in a maze of ideas. For a moment, I was intrigued as to how can happiness be ‘illicit’? If happiness can be illicit, then can it really be the idea of happiness we generally and universally talk of?
All that one can safely say is: Maybe, for a few who are immoral and socially deviant. Happiness is a state of mind that gives you a sense of elation and a feeling that all is well with the world.
It is a quality that can free you of all kinds of negative qualities and make your pilgrimage on this planet meaningful and successful. It sets you in a positive gear to take up acts for the greater good of all.
Happiness is what comes straight out of your positive acts that could make a difference in your society. It is being content with your own achievements and not trying to keep up with other achievers.
{{/usCountry}}Happiness is what comes straight out of your positive acts that could make a difference in your society. It is being content with your own achievements and not trying to keep up with other achievers.
{{/usCountry}}A happy life is one when you are satisfied with your own life, and are in a race only with yourself. It is celebrating your own successes, and bidding goodbye to the darker aspects of the days gone by, forever.
You can never think of being happy without making those around you happy also.
Happiness comes from the acceptance of the fact that you are only a tiny part of a big world and that others are as important as you are.