Saturday, 23 June 2007

Happiness & Success....

"Happiness - The state in which a man feels happy"...Its completly personal...in other words the term "FEELING" is absolutly personal...its quite difficult to say what is the degree of happiness...for me, whenever i am doing what i like to do, i feel happy...when i meet a person who i like and love, i feel happy...when i get some success i feel happy...and there are many things in which i feel happy either to do that or just to remmebr that....Its something very personal and nobody can generalise it....
People feel happy once they achieve some primary success. "SUCCESS" is a term which is quite bit difficult to analyse...i cant say its completly personal but i think it comes with some sort of relativity...i think its like the different steps of a stair...Once we climb the first step we feel happy and then we think about the other step, we put some extra effort and then climb the second one and then we keep climbing all the steps with all our energy and hard work...the one big difference, i think between stairs and the success in life is that, in case of stairs we know what is our last goal, what we are going to achieve when we climb all the stairs, but in real life we dont know what is the last goal...it always keep changing in the whole life untill we are alive...I am not sure about a life after death.... ha ha...But may be if we have, i think it would be the same...
When i say that success is not completly personal, it means its quite bit personal and social...Sometimes the society defines the meaning of success like if you have lots of money, you are successful...If you have the power, you are successful and many other thing...but i think unless and untill success comes with happiness, it doesnt have any meaning...May be some people says that if you wanna achieve something you have to loose many thing....may be you will become a rich man but you may loose your peace of mind....the main point here is to decide, success at what cost??? Do we need that type of success??? what are the things, we value more??? Thats why i say its "PERSONAL" also...Different people may have different views on it...but i like a success which gives me pleasure and in which i may not loose the things i like and love most...in that case, may be i will not be a well known person in the world but i will be happy with my life....
For me, success on the cost of my happiness is never acceptable....As i feel that life is so uncertain and we are not sure whats going to happen in the next moment...i dont want to loose my happiness...If a person is lucky, he can get both the things together but suppose if you are not so lucky and you spent all your time just to achieve something and at the end of the days once you get that you feel that you lost everything except that success....so i think, the priority in life should be always clear...How much we are willing to loss to achieve something?? and does it really worth??- think over it...