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Life is nothing but struggle. Irrespective of country, religion, profession, age or gender, all of us are living our lives and struggling for something or the other. As during a course of general discussion I was told yesterday that we live for temporary “kicks” wherein we think “If that would have been the case, I would be happier”, without realizing that its not the destination we are aiming for but we are just heading towards a new kick. Achieving one kick does give us a respite but soon we aim for the next kick.
So what is life? Is it just a constant struggle for achieving these small kicks?
My answer would be “NO”. Life is a struggle for happiness. So a key to a happy and satisfied life is identifying what will make us truly happy. We as normal humans tend to look for this happiness in external entities (person/things/events) whereas we don’t understand that ultimately happiness is within us. We associate it with external factors. If we start looking for contentment within, we might be a very satisfied person in life.
However believe me, I am very much into worldly pleasures and not planning to achieve Self Actualization. After all i am human!!
So what is life? Is it just a constant struggle for achieving these small kicks?
My answer would be “NO”. Life is a struggle for happiness. So a key to a happy and satisfied life is identifying what will make us truly happy. We as normal humans tend to look for this happiness in external entities (person/things/events) whereas we don’t understand that ultimately happiness is within us. We associate it with external factors. If we start looking for contentment within, we might be a very satisfied person in life.
However believe me, I am very much into worldly pleasures and not planning to achieve Self Actualization. After all i am human!!
posted by Ritu @ 1:39 AM
2 Comments:
At 2:16 AM,
Anonymous said…
You know something Ritu, its people who are the saddest within who appear to be the most cheerful often:) Life kia hai..very pertinent question...searching for something we all are and interestingly enough for everyone that one thing that they are looking for to keep them happy evades them. We look for entities outside us to keep us happy probably because it takes a lot of maturity to be content with the here and now...Self actualization would probably begin when we start seeing the same soul evolving in each body we interact with...:) think about it...can we truly be happy till we have prejudices/opinions?...however here is what I want you to think about and blog...Tell me what do you think of choices in life? Do we have any or is it pre destined that we will take the decision we would in a given set of situations?
At 1:48 AM,
DreamCatcher said…
Agree. Happiness ain't a state of affairs, its a state of mind
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