HAPPINESS

Sometimes you want to go reading through the thoughts of others and then you find yourself carrying a bit too much for comfort and want to drop  some of it  for others to carry on. This is one of those times. I am wondering what is happiness and why we all want it. It appears the answer is peeping out of the question itself. It is actualizations of our desires. Desires are plenty and hardly one can satisfy all of them. But the pursuit of the same and the walk on the course is a favorite life work for most. Our desires are most pressing when they concern our physical entity and most of us keep on accumulating objects of desire in a wanton manner without so much as thinking of testing it. Possibly acquiring itself becomes the desirable object and not so much as getting to use it. Once we own something we mostly assure ourselves that now that we have it we may get something else as we can always use the thing in our possession at anytime. This constant desire to accumulate makes us to be on look out for new possessions always. By the time we pause, out of exhaustion and tiredness, to look at our possessions we find ourselves incapable of using them or may be our taste for them has died. This brings us to frustration and unhappiness.  The pursuit  ends in failure.

This reminds me of the beautiful story I read somewhere in which the God allows two good men to his beautiful orchard with the condition that they have the full day to themselves to enjoy themselves in it. One of them went on searching for the most tasteful fruit and by the end of the day returned without tasting a single fruit as he was always looking for the more tasty one when the evening came. The other one tasted whatever came his way and ate only the ones he felt like taking. By evening he had a belly full and was more than satisfied.

Does it tell us to make the best of the available opportunities life presents us without worrying for hypothetical better opportunities ? Or does it tell us to live in present ? To embrace now here lest we end up no where ? I do not know. Look for yourself.