Doon Youth Centre » happiness http://thedyc.org/blog Empowering youth for complete and transformed individuals of tomorrow ! Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:13:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Within all of us is a child http://thedyc.org/blog/within-all-of-us-is-a-child/ http://thedyc.org/blog/within-all-of-us-is-a-child/#comments Sat, 08 May 2010 11:54:00 +0000 Khushboo Dua http://thedyc.org/blog/?p=1290
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    • ]]>     As a kid we wanted to be everything and anything possible (or maybe not possible).

    Every summer vacation joined a new hobby class.Tried everything that came across.We were explorers as a kid and never tired of exploring and discovering more and more.
    Everyday experimented our abilities with something new,if succeeded well and good,if not, never mind.Something else must be in stored for us.We continued our search..
    Search for excitement, enthusiasm and happiness;search for the high that one feels after doing or creating something,which could very well be building a clay castle or writing poetry.

    What happened to us when we technically ‘grew up’?
    Is our search over?
    Are we done with all exploring with ourselves?
    Or have we experienced all the highs we wanted to feel?

    Have we done all the crazy things we wanted to do?
    No.We haven’t.
    Within all of us there is still that kid who is in constant quest to know more,do more;experience something new,discover new aspects of ourselves.
    So what stops us ? Responsibilities ?  Need to earn and make a living ? Peer pressure?

    Maybe all of it!

    But if we continue living like this then aren’t we running or rather are we really ‘living’ that way. By doing what we are ‘supposed’ to do and not what we really want to do, we are simply running  a rat race. In such a kind of life, we wait for things like promotion or hike in salary to give us a high.Why not experience this high more often?

    It’s all in our hands.

    Do things that you want to do.What you always wanted to do -sing, paint, dance, rock climbing.Be the child you want to be – LIVE.
    Why do we say that childhood days are the best?
    Because then we did what we desired.Did not care for the world and through this we experienced the freedom of childhood.
    Bring back that freedom to your life-start living.

    You may even change your monotonous vocation (if that is not what you want to do). There is no harm to quit the job of software engineer at the age of 35 and be a painter, if you desire so.
    It does take a while to know what gives you the real happiness. It’s okay to take your time and decide. But it’s definitely not okay to do where your heart, mind and soul is not there.

    What do you live for??
    HAPPINESS

    What is the point of living if you do not experience this happiness?That way you’ll be just breathing and not living.
    There is a famous quote: ‘Don’t run through life so fast that you forget where you were and where you are going’
    In this piece, to some I might be sounding  too liberal or impractical or a new young girl in the world who does not know the complexities of this world,whatever the case maybe.
    The bottom line is to be FREE.

    (Choice is completely individualistic…how one would like to feel this FREEDOM.)

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    • ]]>     Sadly, many of us keep convincing ourselves, “Someday I’ll be happy.”

    We tell ourselves ‘I’ll be happy when I will be a president, when I will be doing so and so service, get a particular mobile phone’ etc. We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, then another, then another, on and on and on we go with our wish list.

    Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there’s no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?

    Your life will always be filled with challenges. It’s best to admit this to yourself and decide to be

    happy anyway.

    A wise man said, “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished invention, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”

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    • ]]>     lightbulb

    Light up the mind !

    Yesterday, we had a small get together and the general thought drifted towards “What is satisfaction and what is happiness?”

    Now, that is really absurd because these are very individual specific and is difficult to generalise. But to my thinking mind (I do have some of it and use it sometimes!), certain things stuck out adequately to grab attention. There were divergent views as to how to reach that state that of happiness and satisfaction. The views on what is it were also similar but much less divergent. Some associated it with name,others with fame, yet others with money. Some thought that if you are satisfied you will stop progressing, some thought that satisfaction an happiness are the first steps towards giving up.

    Some felt that these are attained only at the end of it all. Hardly a person thought about the co-relation that exists between the material progress and happiness. Well, to say the least material progress and happiness does have a co-relation. These are not mutually exclusive. As some would say “Teach a child something about possessing before you can teach him (or her) the value of sharing” Possessing and sharing are not exclusive as is sometimes perceived by a lot of people.

    These do have some co-relation, probably to the same degree as happiness and material progress, at least I believe so. This would be better understood if you observed the society a little closely. All rich people or all poor people are not happy. Similarly, all poor people or all rich are also not unhappy. Thus arises the question – if material progress does not give you happiness the what does? Well, all people are as different as their faces, so what will give them happiness is also as different.

    Some people who are in business will be happy if their business flourishes.Similarly, sports persons derive happiness in the glory they seek, doctors in the way they help others and so on and so forth. But this we are talking in the zone of co-relation. Beyond, that the things that will bring happiness is a universal constant i.e. “the goodness in you” factor. It is this “the goodness in you” factor, that I feel will bring happiness. If you have harmed people to do well in your business, you will be happy as long as you exist in the co-relation zone. Beyond that you will again be unhappy. That understanding I think is what makes people happy and satisfied.

    Too much thinking for the day.

    Time to get back on the saddle and go for a good ride.

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