What exactly is the meaning
of happiness and how to get it- this simple question has been perplexing even
most intelligent beings since ages. A
person can marvel at the ways people adopt to stay happy. Some of us believe buying
trendiest cloths, coolest gadgets and better things can make us happy while
others opine possession of worldly things is the root cause of all our problems
and we ought to stop accumulation. This is how we can connect to the god and
master the hardships thrown to us by nature. In other words they think
detachment from worldly affairs can surely bestow happiness upon them.
On the surface, all of us
look happy or pretend to be happy but deep down there is a feeling of void and
we all diligently are in search of something that can fill in this void so that we could have peace, contentment and
happiness. Those of us, who count on materialistic approach and see worldly
comforts as the substitute of happiness, often have to flip out for worldly
comforts, are transient in nature and nothing but the transformation of worldly
sorrows. So, to run only for material comforts in order to gain happiness does
not seem be legitimate solution. On the other hand, if we detach our self from
the worldly obligations, the growth of our society as well as civilization will
be imperiled and if this is what god had expected from us, he would not have
not created the world.
So both the theories
propounded to stay happy seem to be flawed and wide of the mark. It’s not
possible to lead a life without using whatever that belongs to this world; likewise
complete detachment from the world is a potent threat to the development of
healthy society. But we need not to go berserk as we can always choose the
middle way. We can enjoy all the amenities that world has to offer while being
humble, honest, truthful and above all thankful to god. We also have to be
vigilant enough to make sure that we don’t exploit nature and natural resources
in order to enrich our lives. We must also
not have clandestine agenda for development; all our operations must be
aboveboard. We need not to detach from the world but moderate our actions and
revive the swept away values.