Happiness
What is happiness?
Happiness is a feeling that you get when you can say that life's good and smile about it.
But of course different people have different and often even conflicting ideas about what's happiness to them.
Until 8th grade everyone had an almost common idea of happiness:- going down to play, ordering pizza etc . But after 9th it took a drastic change for everybody. Now it meant meeting friends, sleepovers , shopping etc.
However this happiness was very short lived. Yes, I am talking about those bloody board exams. All happiness was buried behind a pile of enormous pressure of clearing entrance exams for best colleges. Now college might sound like fun, but there isn't much to it. Just studying your butts off for completing assignments.
Everyone wants to lead a happy life. But how many are actually able do it?
After clearing college and getting degrees everyone wants to settle and lead a happy lifestyle. But think about those people who actually want to become something but are stuck in an office for the sake of settling down.
What about a photographer or an artist?
In such a money minded world like ours they would never get motivated to pursue these careers. Therefore they would have to give up their definition of happiness and work like donkeys.
What I mean to convey is that everyone deserves happiness, but are they getting it?
When we are young we hardly know the meaning of happiness. During our teen years when we actually figure out the meaning and start dreaming, it is all broken down due to pressure of entrance exams. Then while working, a person sacrifices his dreams to earn enough money and settle. But by the time he is done earning ,he is so old that he can have no fun.
Our parents say sacrifice all the happiness and fun now so that you can enjoy later , well I guess a lot of us will disagree to that.
Happiness is a feeling that you get when you can say that life's good and smile about it.
But of course different people have different and often even conflicting ideas about what's happiness to them.
Until 8th grade everyone had an almost common idea of happiness:- going down to play, ordering pizza etc . But after 9th it took a drastic change for everybody. Now it meant meeting friends, sleepovers , shopping etc.
However this happiness was very short lived. Yes, I am talking about those bloody board exams. All happiness was buried behind a pile of enormous pressure of clearing entrance exams for best colleges. Now college might sound like fun, but there isn't much to it. Just studying your butts off for completing assignments.
Everyone wants to lead a happy life. But how many are actually able do it?
After clearing college and getting degrees everyone wants to settle and lead a happy lifestyle. But think about those people who actually want to become something but are stuck in an office for the sake of settling down.
What about a photographer or an artist?
In such a money minded world like ours they would never get motivated to pursue these careers. Therefore they would have to give up their definition of happiness and work like donkeys.
What I mean to convey is that everyone deserves happiness, but are they getting it?
When we are young we hardly know the meaning of happiness. During our teen years when we actually figure out the meaning and start dreaming, it is all broken down due to pressure of entrance exams. Then while working, a person sacrifices his dreams to earn enough money and settle. But by the time he is done earning ,he is so old that he can have no fun.
Our parents say sacrifice all the happiness and fun now so that you can enjoy later , well I guess a lot of us will disagree to that.
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