Correct me if I am wrong, but here are my realizations for today.
Purpose of life--> happiness.
What is happiness?--> only you can decide for yourself.
What about other's (people we love) happiness?--> Indirectly, your happiness should be their happiness. and Directly, they are as much on their own as you are, when it comes to finding their happiness.
The question is: Can we really make anyone else happy? Especially, 1) if they haven't learned how to be happy or 2) if we are becoming unhappy ourselves (in the process)?
...Then, who are we fooling all this time?
If you survey some of the most "unhappy-zones" in your life, you may find that those are the times you were put in a situation where you could not be yourself (partially or fully). Sometimes we might have "valid" restraints, but most times it may be that we have just accepted the situation (including our new-self), and decided to live with it.
And being yourself doesn't mean carrying the "go to hell" attitude! It also doesn't mean being arrogant or ignoring other people's influence on our lives. Actually, it's exactly opposite. It's about listening carefully to your inner voice, and being humble to your own soul. By doing that, you will automatically be humble to others, because u will start putting some soul into everything you do, and say. And that's my friends is the highway to happiness!
So, next time, when u start being unhappy, ask yourself, "Have I started being someone else?"
As the lyrics from a famous song goes: "Happiness runs in the circular motion, you can have everything if you let your self be!"- 1968, Donovan (Scottish singer)
Cheers! to being yourself!
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(Gems of the day, Feb 19, 2011)
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