That Ever Lasting Smile
There used to be a professor in my class who used to religiously ask this question before he starts his lecture “Are you Happy?".I always thought that it was not such an easy question that can be answered nor did it make prudence to self interrogate to ascertain the same. It is true that we can always distinguish the moment of happiness from other states although the source of happiness somewhat conjugates itself with fluid partners.
There is a guy who serves tea to us in our company, He does not serve the best of beverages although the monotony of the same composition might have lead me to this conclusion but there is something that I relish about him. He has this ability to judge the mood of people by looking at them. Last Wednesday, He suddenly put across this statement to me; he said "You look happy”. I was amused by this because it was the first time in a year that he had to say this to me although we shared a good rapport. I refuted "I am always like that”. He replied " May be you are more happy than what you were earlier”. I could not resist admitting it in private to myself. May be he is right, I could discern the change when I consciously evaluated it. It was the penultimate day, I had opened myself to one of my close chum about the worries that had promulgated my mind for sometime now. I was feeling better after I spoke out.Could be, that is what reflected in my attitude and happy feel factor somehow surfaced.
There is one important thing I had to concede, people who observe you would know if you are really happy. Now, that lead to "What is happiness?”. I came up with answers like smiling, pleasure, joy or feeling good. The more I got to scrutinize my answers; I realized that those were mere outcomes or synonyms to happiness. After some mind wars to reach consensus, I refined "Is happiness the state of feeling when one is satisfied when he gets what he wants?”.The want may be both tangible and intangible. Okay that a fair attempt but I wasn't completely convinced.
Maybe, happiness is the state of being oneself when somebody is satisfying his needs. I got to contemplate "Is happiness a balanced state when one is satisfied ". It couldn't be that way because in such a state of neutrality caused by satisfaction, we cannot enjoy happiness. I got to observe another thing the more we are conscious that we are happy, the state starts to sizzle away. The more we are conscious of having satisfied of our needs, we are not happy.Oops, then what the heck is this happiness, I know for sure that some damn thing happens when we are happy. Something ringed somewhere "Is happiness the state when we are unconscious of our needs in spite of our needs?". I really don’t know.
There is a guy who serves tea to us in our company, He does not serve the best of beverages although the monotony of the same composition might have lead me to this conclusion but there is something that I relish about him. He has this ability to judge the mood of people by looking at them. Last Wednesday, He suddenly put across this statement to me; he said "You look happy”. I was amused by this because it was the first time in a year that he had to say this to me although we shared a good rapport. I refuted "I am always like that”. He replied " May be you are more happy than what you were earlier”. I could not resist admitting it in private to myself. May be he is right, I could discern the change when I consciously evaluated it. It was the penultimate day, I had opened myself to one of my close chum about the worries that had promulgated my mind for sometime now. I was feeling better after I spoke out.Could be, that is what reflected in my attitude and happy feel factor somehow surfaced.
There is one important thing I had to concede, people who observe you would know if you are really happy. Now, that lead to "What is happiness?”. I came up with answers like smiling, pleasure, joy or feeling good. The more I got to scrutinize my answers; I realized that those were mere outcomes or synonyms to happiness. After some mind wars to reach consensus, I refined "Is happiness the state of feeling when one is satisfied when he gets what he wants?”.The want may be both tangible and intangible. Okay that a fair attempt but I wasn't completely convinced.
Maybe, happiness is the state of being oneself when somebody is satisfying his needs. I got to contemplate "Is happiness a balanced state when one is satisfied ". It couldn't be that way because in such a state of neutrality caused by satisfaction, we cannot enjoy happiness. I got to observe another thing the more we are conscious that we are happy, the state starts to sizzle away. The more we are conscious of having satisfied of our needs, we are not happy.Oops, then what the heck is this happiness, I know for sure that some damn thing happens when we are happy. Something ringed somewhere "Is happiness the state when we are unconscious of our needs in spite of our needs?". I really don’t know.
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