Dear all...What is Happiness?...good question!!
I can only tell from my own experience and what I believe in!!...it may be wrong…or it may be right…perception varies from person to person…
1. A poor childhood, but rich in Nature around, at Sivagiri and Ezhumathhur villages…where I spent from age 5 to age 7…and later at Coimbatore from 8 onwards
2. Though I did not get many things in life like good dress, good chappals, education at elite schools, food etc but I was happy playing country games on the road side with my type of boys, just not bothering about ANYTHING in life...(though the rich boys did not accept me among them as a cultured one!)...again created my own Amazon forest with in the 2 cents land with all the 'pet animal' and insects kingdom and found happiness in abundance!!
3. I am not intelligent…I am just an average guy…may be below average also…but I know through hard work we can tide over this disability and it became true also in my life.
4. As I mentioned in the other post and many other posts I feel ‘God is every where as Nature. We are also part of Nature. We don’t have to pray God, and God gives without asking, if we good human beings, as, God knows what is right and good for us, what we deserve to be happy, healthy, contended and successful in our own feelings and beliefs! God gives everything that is right for us! In the perception of others it may be less or wrong for us, but actually right for us!!’…so, I accept destiny as it is…so, anything that happens in life is happiness for me!!
5. As a child I could see rich people were also not happy. People in power were also not happy. All those who went to God with big lists were also not happy always as they got only small pleasures...and certainly they did not get good physical-mental-social helath, happiness, contentment, a big success, fame etc...So, I learnt that these are only necessary conditions for comfort and ego satisfaction for pleasures but not sufficient conditions for total life long happiness. Later on Maslow also said all those five needs. Also realized that materialistic things can not give contentment but are necessary too, which we can get through our hard work.
6. During the poor child hood there was no political or any other help or support. I only believed that only education can give everything…how much we take out of that 100 marks question paper is in our hands and not in the hands of others!!...if we believe in our hard work and good humanness then God will ensure that all the conditions are favourable to us to get the maximum marks. We don’t have to pray to god. This is what I believe in and it happened to be true also. So, this belief gets enforced as right in me.
7. So, from all the above I defined life like this….Life is journey of learning…keep learning, and you will get earning too, as the word learning has earning within…learning (not reading or education…but converting all education, experience, knowledge and skills into positive cognition, emotions and behaviours) makes you a noble person, gives fame, power, authority, identity, money, wealth, good health, ability to be in the present, good friends and everything…and this definition and belief came true also…so, I am forced to believe that ‘LEARNING GETS YOU HAPPINESS AND EVERYTHING INCLUDING GOD!!!’
peacefully yours...rams...health psychologist...
I can only tell from my own experience and what I believe in!!...it may be wrong…or it may be right…perception varies from person to person…
1. A poor childhood, but rich in Nature around, at Sivagiri and Ezhumathhur villages…where I spent from age 5 to age 7…and later at Coimbatore from 8 onwards
2. Though I did not get many things in life like good dress, good chappals, education at elite schools, food etc but I was happy playing country games on the road side with my type of boys, just not bothering about ANYTHING in life...(though the rich boys did not accept me among them as a cultured one!)...again created my own Amazon forest with in the 2 cents land with all the 'pet animal' and insects kingdom and found happiness in abundance!!
3. I am not intelligent…I am just an average guy…may be below average also…but I know through hard work we can tide over this disability and it became true also in my life.
4. As I mentioned in the other post and many other posts I feel ‘God is every where as Nature. We are also part of Nature. We don’t have to pray God, and God gives without asking, if we good human beings, as, God knows what is right and good for us, what we deserve to be happy, healthy, contended and successful in our own feelings and beliefs! God gives everything that is right for us! In the perception of others it may be less or wrong for us, but actually right for us!!’…so, I accept destiny as it is…so, anything that happens in life is happiness for me!!
5. As a child I could see rich people were also not happy. People in power were also not happy. All those who went to God with big lists were also not happy always as they got only small pleasures...and certainly they did not get good physical-mental-social helath, happiness, contentment, a big success, fame etc...So, I learnt that these are only necessary conditions for comfort and ego satisfaction for pleasures but not sufficient conditions for total life long happiness. Later on Maslow also said all those five needs. Also realized that materialistic things can not give contentment but are necessary too, which we can get through our hard work.
6. During the poor child hood there was no political or any other help or support. I only believed that only education can give everything…how much we take out of that 100 marks question paper is in our hands and not in the hands of others!!...if we believe in our hard work and good humanness then God will ensure that all the conditions are favourable to us to get the maximum marks. We don’t have to pray to god. This is what I believe in and it happened to be true also. So, this belief gets enforced as right in me.
7. So, from all the above I defined life like this….Life is journey of learning…keep learning, and you will get earning too, as the word learning has earning within…learning (not reading or education…but converting all education, experience, knowledge and skills into positive cognition, emotions and behaviours) makes you a noble person, gives fame, power, authority, identity, money, wealth, good health, ability to be in the present, good friends and everything…and this definition and belief came true also…so, I am forced to believe that ‘LEARNING GETS YOU HAPPINESS AND EVERYTHING INCLUDING GOD!!!’
peacefully yours...rams...health psychologist...
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