HappYness - Highly subjective complication

Are you Happy? It’s a simple, short and frequent question but with a equally convoluted and obscure answer. We are victim to this question at every decision taken (wrong or right) at each state of life (positive or negative). Libraries are filled with racks of books on happiness or subjects contiguous to it but yet it feels like the main subject in itself still remains un-discussed, inexplicable and very conceptual. Yes it is, as the foremost reason for it is because happiness is not some scientific phenomenon which you can be bonded in definition or it’s not a mathematical derivation which can be expressed in formula at the same time it’s not a software program where you can limit its scope within a flowchart and technical designs. In my true sense it’s a state of mind and varies widely with each and every thought of not only an individual mind but also with each thought of same mind.

The ‘pursuit of happyness’ is never ending never culminating. It’s forever and ever. Money and prosperity are most commonly misconceptioned measures of calculating happiness but as they say money can buy bed but can’t buy sound sleep (not over pills, grass, weed or pot ), can buy house but not home so in the same way it can buy lot of other things which encircle happiness but not happiness itself. You don’t need lot of wealth for being happy; there is no direct or exponential relation between both of these. Everyone is happy to get first job and the salary is rarely comparable to our jobs now and so are the happiness in opposite way. The amount of joy and contentment I got from my first salary was immense and I was on cloud 9. Days changed, state changed and it changed my measure of happiness. It happens with everyone and each has to get along it. I would be happy to work in USA, now when I am in USA, I would be happy to go back and work in India, then after working there for some period; I will again change my mind. It’s a virtual happiness based on place.

During my recent trip to India I visited my village and went to my farms. The kind of happiness in a simple food we had there with OUR people can’t match with the joy I could get from expensive delicacy dishes around the world in glittering hotels. So how would one define happiness? I can’t think of any definition exist as such. Sometimes we try to find happiness in hobbies and to some extent we achieve it but that’s momentarily. Happiness is always transiently and hence I think many sages went wandering paths for their whole lives in search of enduring happiness. Is that what they call as ‘Moksha’ or that’s also another state of mind which we can’t justify and explain and hence we named it as enduring happiness?

For a common person like me, small things bring big joy with them. I try to live and over enjoy that moment because I know, that moment will not last than the determined period and after that things will fall in level and won’t amuse me the same. You can either always be in pursuit of happYness or can accumulate grains of happiness from routine things we do, witness and fall victims to.