How many times in our lives have we really felt "I am happy?" Well the answer will definitely come out to be - many a times. Give a serious thought to it and you will know that whenever you felt happy there was something which was adding that 'until' to the end of your claim, simultaneously.
Let us start from the beginning, the beginning of one's life.
When I was born, I was happy - until I found the need to communicate my needs.
When I tried to communicate through actions, people started understanding me and now I was happy - until the people felt that communication has better ways- speaking -and so they taught me how to speak.
When I learnt to speak, I could communicate my desires in a language that was understandable by the people and now I was happy - until the people stopped responding positively to all my desires.
As I grew old, I understood that desires must be controlled and that all desires cannot be fulfilled at the instant and now I was happy - until one evil started poking me to go faster for my desires, the temptations.
Now I was busy fighting against temptations. I learned how to win over them and I was happy - until other evils took to my attention. Now I had a full army to fight against; greed, hatred, deceit, lust etc.
I was busy all this time trying to figure out a way, a simple formula- like the one Newton had for gravity- so that whenever I face with any of these disturbing variables I shall substitute them in the formula and get a positive outcome automatically. Completely Impractical !!
The process of mentioning all the incidents of life where 'I was happy until...' can go on and in the end you may probably realize that you were never of the form 'I am happy'. But, to discourage you is not my motive.
My motive is to recall those incidents where now you know you felt 'I was happy until...' so that you will notice this time the virtues that gave you the power to fight.
Feeling happy is like a chain reaction. Everytime you feel so, it is crushed by the split of your mind into the positive part and the negative part. The negative part is thrown out of the conscious and you feel happy because of the realization of the existence of the positive part which won against the negative part.
A vicious circle of feeling happy !!
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Well, nothing is eternal. So is happiness. Good times aren't always good; so are the bad ones. Every bad has its good and ever good has its bad. I would never associate an 'until' to "I was happy." My way of putting it is.... "I was happy until the happiness diminished (but I was still happy :P) and the times changed to make me more happier." Whatever, I shall forever remain happy, though the scale of my happiness won't always be the same!!
I simply believe that a person needs to strike a balance between his happiness and sorrows. He should not get too much occupied by existence or absence of any of the two.
And that is what I have tried to pen down.
whoaa!!!! looks like someone is thinking a lot these days!!
nice post :) keep blogging!
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