The term happiness cannot be contained or explained through words. No word is right word to explain the essence of happiness. Happiness is a spiritual element that is far beyond human explanation. It is eternal and human inheritance. The word happiness cannot make you happy like the word water cannot quench. For someone who is thirst must drink water and quench the throat. And the same thing is true with happiness. Happiness is not something verbal or to be induced from outside. No money, power, fame, or other worldly materials can make you happy; if they make you, it is temporarily, for happiness emanates from within.
Happiness has been the subject of debate and philosophical conflict among philosophers. It is a burning issue since human creation. The whole humanity is zealous to be happy and stay calm and peaceful. However, very few like the number of our fingers are happy; otherwise the rest of humanity is snuffed off into thick night and invariably grope. There is no night with a darkness that can stay for life time, for there is a lamp to lit, but there is human darkness that can never even be illuminated without human happiness. Happiness unveils the thick human darkness and lights the path of purpose. Nevertheless, happiness is byproduct or effect, not the cause by itself.
The very effort that we invariably exercise is to be happy and stay vibrant on the stage without fear and insecurity is the desire to experience ecstasy. Whatever we do is our attempt to stay happy. The motive of life is happiness and failure to accomplish is unhappiness. The motive is strong, the energy is enormous and the search is endless but the time is limited. As a consequence of this, humanity is in rashness of emergency. In the course of life, I have been with several people who sought happiness at high cost of their time and energy. Some would say it is such a waste and futile effort to break through the walls so as to experience happiness. Some admittedly said that no effort is good effort to achieve happiness. I pondered who is happy and can be happy, if efforts are worthless and anti happiness. I wondered 'why', however while time went by little by little I started to understand the secret. It is true that no effort is true effort to attain happiness. This tells me that happiness is unsearched and cannot be charted or put under certain formula. If it were, philosophers would have set a mathematical formula to find our happiness, and only mathematicians would be happy.
Philosophers died seeking happiness, not even happy one day. Efforts over efforts, but fruitless. Not only philosophers though their ideas are epidemic to humanity; even your life from morning to night is struggling wrongly to breath happiness. Sometimes you feel the insight of blessings and sometimes absolute boredom. However, this is byproduct of your actions-blessed and evil actions. Remember that you were not born evil; it is your action makes you evil. Just wonder about evils that prevail on the planet. All human evils are meant to achieve happiness, but wrongly. Very recently I have come to realize that the motive for murder, crime, theft, gossip, assassination, hatred, genocide and endless evil actions are all meant to be happy. This implies that how much humanity is ignorant about the path of happiness. As there is a path to evil, so shall there is a path to happiness, but it seems better said than done. It is easy to destroy a palace, but extremely difficult to build. The same thing is true with happiness. The path to evil is too easy, whereas the path to happiness is subtler and only few find it.
I have read enormous books about happiness in particular and life in general, but none of them coined it vividly. They beat around the bush and take the long way to explain the bright part of life; it is vicious circle. Some of them took me far away and dropped me nowhere, while some had taken me far away and brought me where I was, no change at all; only wastage of time and energy. Still other books had provided me a certain formula to put life into a box, but eventually I have understood that life is infinite; only turtle lives in a box and some fanatics.
The essence of happiness is not seeking, searching, philosophizing or mathematical formula. No seeking is certain and no formula is true. Happiness cannot be contained in such a way. If it were, we would all be happy and shining. Desperately, humanity has been seeking the source of happiness; however, still nothing achieved. The effort is colossal, the search is endless, the worries are sucking, but the hope is potential. In succinct manner, let me put it this way: the path to happiness is pathless and chartless. If you want to be happy, be yourself. To be yourself, discover yourself. To discover yourself, understand your nature. To understand your nature, understand the purpose of life. To understand the purpose of life, communicate to the unmoved mover. Nothing exists, only existence alone. Happiness is not a hot subject, but existence is. Don't drift away and consume your life. Mediate over beauty of existence, and eventually existence will consume and grant you happiness. Happiness does not descend or come to you because it is already within you. You are potentially happy. Its ingredient is available to you; only learn to how discover it.
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