Revise your Happiness Quotient!
Not one
individual, but nearly all of us aspire for a common commodity – Happiness! All
of us think about, discuss, and look forward to how to make ourselves
happy for a good chunk of our thinking hat time. Being happy is a universal
pursuit and no grey cell out there is exempt from this desire. Yet, why it
becomes so complex to be happy and why being just happy is such a toiling
effort.
I picked up my observation hat and read literature conversed with expert people and got a bunch of recommendations on how to be happy. Some people gave me a very clichéd, “Happiness is a state of mind” and “The pursuit of happiness begins within.”, and several others like, “only an ignorant mind can be happy”, to“ happiness comes from letting go of things that annoy you” & “happiness comes from sharing” etc. Another one was to learn to focus on the present and prevent focussing on the past or future.
World
renowned motivational Gurus like Robin Sharma, Rhonda Byrne et al also state an
optimistic set of mind training procedures to induce happiness in our lives.
Even when people today read all self-help literature compared to the past times
due to easy accessibility and affordability, most people talk about and are
aware of toolkits to be happy. It seems, there is still some void to the outcome magnitude.
Is it to
blame on our lifestyles or changing equations of relationships today or is it
that we have failed to condition our brains to a certain tougher process in the long
run and fall prey to adverse circumstances? Whatever the reasons we may
console ourselves with, but the fact lies that we are in the era of ultra-awareness and easier lifestyles, we are continuously falling on the graphs of our happiness quotient.
True
indeed, happiness lies inwards and this troubleshooting requires an
introspective journey to realize what makes an individual happy. But, in the face of self-realization, the biggest error we humans do is to take this vow of
change with an unpredictable expiry date!
Anupam Kher
in his Book (The best thing about you is you) mentions about how the digital
era swiped out industry giants like Remington, Smith- Corona or Olivetti which
were all manufacturers of the typewriter.
Yes, we all tend to start our post awareness drive with a kickstart vow and allow it to diminish as time passes by. What we fail to realize is, that this is as continuous a process as hunger for food.
We need to fill our brain every new day and condition it with everything we can do to make ourselves happier. 😊
