The simple questions in life are :Are you happy at this moment?Do you get adequate deep sleep?Are you doing things in life which you want to do? we can add a few more in this list...Easy questions but difficult to answer..By sheer habit we live , leading life as we please and then regret later this is not the life that we should have led ..
Personally i do realize that I have wasted away this birth although I did everything possible on both office and domestic front ...I indeed I was so obsessed with my work ethics that I did not do full justice to family .
I was fortunate enough to internalize what Plato told long ago without actually reading him:"I am the wisest man alive for one thing , and that is that I know nothing".This naivety which is really a profound wisdom has not allowed me to fall into a pit of depression when i had the worst phase in my life -both academic and domestic..
Going back to the theme of happiness I can write a lengthy essay having read more theory on this subject.That day will wait...when we seek happiness as if it is an ideal or an act to be undertaken it does not come .Like sleep happiness too is not an activity ;If there is more anxiety and agitation sleep will not embrace you; it should come spontaneously as a reward for the honestly stored energy expended in doing work.
More importantly if we are not happy with what we have already got we will never be happy with what we are going to get in future. There is a saying that blessed is he who has found his work/ and let him ask no other happiness. we do not become happy once we get what we want on the material side..There is no end to ends(wants) till our end comes..
Let the supreme give us the wisdom not get tormented by guilt, racked by anxiety and exhausted by unresolved hate..Do not worry about your failing or falling ;so long as there exists a pair of loving arms to lift you and sustain your life you will survive.Resorting to Bible I would say and suggest:
"Have faith that the power that brought you here will help you through any future crisis ,whatever it may be .''
Personally i do realize that I have wasted away this birth although I did everything possible on both office and domestic front ...I indeed I was so obsessed with my work ethics that I did not do full justice to family .
I was fortunate enough to internalize what Plato told long ago without actually reading him:"I am the wisest man alive for one thing , and that is that I know nothing".This naivety which is really a profound wisdom has not allowed me to fall into a pit of depression when i had the worst phase in my life -both academic and domestic..
Going back to the theme of happiness I can write a lengthy essay having read more theory on this subject.That day will wait...when we seek happiness as if it is an ideal or an act to be undertaken it does not come .Like sleep happiness too is not an activity ;If there is more anxiety and agitation sleep will not embrace you; it should come spontaneously as a reward for the honestly stored energy expended in doing work.
More importantly if we are not happy with what we have already got we will never be happy with what we are going to get in future. There is a saying that blessed is he who has found his work/ and let him ask no other happiness. we do not become happy once we get what we want on the material side..There is no end to ends(wants) till our end comes..
Let the supreme give us the wisdom not get tormented by guilt, racked by anxiety and exhausted by unresolved hate..Do not worry about your failing or falling ;so long as there exists a pair of loving arms to lift you and sustain your life you will survive.Resorting to Bible I would say and suggest:
"Have faith that the power that brought you here will help you through any future crisis ,whatever it may be .''
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