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SOUND OFF! Safeer says that happiness has to be found within oneself
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Who uses the word happiness the most?
A great many people thrive on this one word called “happiness”. You could here these statements in various advertisements, posters — “Bring happiness into your life”, “How to be happy in life “, “Say bye to a stressful life”, “How to lead a happy life” ...phew! And the list is endless!
Media also plays a significant role. The front page of any newspaper is a very good example of how they create the vision of an “unhappy” world around us. They make us believe that the world we live is full of miseries, unhappiness and most important is, it is “stressful”. This is not a thing to be concerned about, at all. Rather, the concern you should be having right now is, how can you prevent the brain drain, money drain and sleep drain arising out of you being labelled as one of those desperate persons who then goes in search of that “happiness” by consulting the various so called “happiness ATMs”.
Happiness is just a state of being (and is well within you) at particular moment in your life. You can be worried and in deep sorrow at one moment, and in the next you could be rejoicing. It is not that this world or millennia is filled only with miserable people. People were joyous and worried in the past like we are in today’s world.
Nothing has changed. I agree that the reasons for joy or concern vary from individual to individual, past to present, etc.
So please have this realisation in mind, and don’t waste your time and energy investing in the search for happiness.
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