“What
makes you happy?” did someone ask you this question or ask yourself? Sometimes
the things you most afraid are the things that make you the happiest. According to Aristotle Happiness is not a
state of mind it is a way of life where it can be achieved and assessed in life
time. In these days people don’t know the true
meaning of happiness; why? Because admit it or not people in this generation
find their happiness in material things just like technology and wealth.
Happiness can be found in small things, just like a lover giving you chocolates
and flowers for your monthsary, a person texted you saying “I miss you” or just
greeted you “Good morning”, some find happiness looking at people’s suffering
and seeing someone getting hurt. Those are one of the things that makes us
happy, but the question is does these things makes us really happy that you can
say that you’re complete? Some will answer yes, some will say maybe, but some
will ask “what is true happiness?” as a person we all have our own definition
of happiness but the truth is the source of real happiness is in one's
own inner self and not in the outside world. We equate happiness with the world
of external thingsand that is why there is a scramble for acquisition and accumulation
of things. The fact is that these things are, at best, no more than the means
to achieve happiness and not happiness itself. One can experience happiness
even without them.
In this time it is hard to define the happiness
to real happiness because the world is covered of desired to material world and
forgot the true meaning of happiness as our standard of living has serves to
increase our dependence on others and to that extent has removed us further
from real happiness. That is why the standard of living of all the
countries is not uniformly high and presents an unpleasant contrast. Those who
possess more are anxious to extort more and more from those who do not possess
much. The result is naturally conflict between man and man and country and
country. The fear of this conflict has become a nightmare for the modern man.
we have
assumed that increase in material prosperity also means the attainment of
happiness is neither quite correct nor so self-evident. This assumption is true
only up to a certain limit and the more we transgress this limit the more
remote become our chances of being happy. Therefore, I do not suggest that
ambition and or high aspiration should be discourage, only that man must live
by his faith and the above truth and won’t base the true happiness in the
outside world we should always remember happiness is within our hearts, It is
not seen in material things nor can be bought anywhere else because only by
virtuous activities determines real happiness can be attained
