The Inner Turmoil

We, humans are too naïve to understand that happiness is an inner phenomenon. No outer element in this cosmos can deter it. But apparently we are on a path, where our emotions and moods depend on someone else or something else. The cost of our happiness is over-hyped as we look forward towards materialistic gains to feel more joyful. Whatever we do for our survival is an act of making ourselves and our closed one’s happy. Our unsaid destination is to feel good, and everything that we do, is meant to make us feel happy. The job that we are running behind is our imaginary journey towards a pleasant feeling called happiness, the reason behind this is a conclusion made by us, which states that a stable life with the help of a stable job would end up making us happy. But is it so? Is it so that after getting a job, all your life problems go away?  Due to this misconception we mistake our journey as our final destination. For an instance, stop running behind things and start enjoying what you already have.

Many of you might not sympathize with what I said but I am sure that any sane person would agree with the fact that ‘just money’ can’t bring any sunshine to our dull lives. If it was so, then the richest nations would have been the happiest ones too but on quite the contrary, they are the most neurotic and depressed ones. Money brings us comfort, which we directly relate with our happiness and this keeps our happiness always on the fluctuation mode. When money comes, we become happy and when it goes, it takes away our happiness. In all these efforts of fixing the world, we give away the keys of our happiness to the circumstances around. It is up to us what our definition of happiness is and should be. It can be anything starting from a simple smile to a million dollar car. But I would definitely recommend you to make your happiness so cheap that a penny-less person could also earn it. Not just this, the concept of ‘enough’ is not engraved in our system as our greed and desire for new things makes it difficult for us to harvest happiness. When you learn to put a full stop to your personal desires that is when you attain contentment.

What we are marching towards is not development or maturity but inflation.
In our childhood days when we used to see a ten rupee note, we used to get elated. But today even ten thousand rupees are not enough to bring smile on our face, this is not growth, this is inflation. What could have been done with a small ice cream to a little child needs a thousand things and multi dollar notes to be fixed for an adult. As a child we were not inflated but now our demands are high. The simple villagers who were simply happy with a full rainfall in the season, today needs high speed internet, huge infrastructures and the whole governing body to re frame itself to feel a little satisfied. We are making ourselves and all around us hugely inflated which is making it difficult for people to smile naturally.
As a child, we lived the lives of a slave, we had to eat when others fed us, used to clothe what others decided on our behalf, used to wake up and sleep as per instruction, we were quite helpless, but you cant call it an exploitation as we were happy all the time, just because we had simple economic routes to happiness and were not inflated in our minds and ideas. Today we enjoy heavy freedom but the inflation cost of happiness makes it difficult for us to let go and smile like a human

The initial step that is to be taken by us is to fluently manage our senses between controlling them and allowing them to flow freely. You should know when to put a full stop to the economics of our lives. The clarity of this crucial decision makes you think different from everyone.  On one hand, you have to be in charge of your senses with total control and on the other hand, you should know when to loosen the reigns that you hold. By doing this you allow them unravel the dimensions that were never looked upon.  

Once in a while be happy for no apparent reason.