On Happiness
A Chinese Proverb says, "If you want happiness" - For some moments = indulge in any sense-pleasure. - For an hour = Take a nap or a walk - For a day = Go for a picnic - For a month = Get Married (Debatable) - For a year = inherit a fortune (that is, in one year you must have spent it) - For a decade = Get divorced (Well, Well, I added this one to make my married friends imagine happiness) - For a lifetime = Give, give, give (love, care, help, time, patience, smile, tears to others in need of them) - For eternity = Know who you really are from the one who knows who he is not. Now, we must ask ourselves, which happiness we want. We are all happy today since everything is in place as per our wish and want (House, wife, child, health, job, Bank balance, knees, heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, the list is endless and subjective). Just imagine that one of the features in this list is taken away. Now what happens to our "Happiness Quotient" is a true indicator of ...