I_am_learning
Mar27-11, 08:50 PM
Its surprising to notice that humans are trapped in unendding chain of desires.
You are currently working for a goal, say for example getting a very nice job. You currently imagine that after you reach that goal you will live a much happier life. When you actually reach that goal, you indeed become very happy with it. But it don't lasts long. It becomes sort of default thing, sort of like the thing that automatically is present, and so you start to desire more. And the cycle repeats forever.
This raises the question, Does the possession of physical luxuries or name and fame real source of happiness ? What is the cirtieria to be happy and how to achieve it.
Everybody can find out example in their life such as mine:
Few months ago, I had dreamt of making a magnetic levitator (A device to suspend magnetic objects in mid-air) myself. I thought that it would be such a nice thing to display it in my room. I thought that would be my ultimate project and I would earn lot of fame from it. I thought it would be my ultimate joy.
I finally made it. It indeed gave me joy and happiness. I even got some praisings. But they were all temporary. Like buildings made of ashes. The levitator now resides in a corner of my room and I (and my brother) don't have much any interest in it now.
The irony is that, knowing all of this I am again interested in doing yet another similar similar project, in the hope that the happiness brought by it would be long lasting?
Some of you might exclaim, "whats wrong with such thing, after all it gives you happiness, atleast for some time. Happiness for some time is better than no happiness at all." But what about the pains involved in it.What about the labour involved. I had stayed for late nights and mishandeled health and hygine to get the project working. And the worst of all is that if the plan don't succeed you will get pain.
The real question is, what is it that achieving the goal provides which you already don't have. Afterall happineess resides in mind. Why can't you be happy right away? Having read all of this and moreover being convinced that happiness brought to you after you achive your current goal won't last long, why do you still think --"I am not very happy now, to be very happy I need to achieve this/that/pat/hat etc?"
I hope I din't bore you.
Thanks for reading.
Its surprising to notice that humans are trapped in unendding chain of desires.
You are currently working for a goal, say for example getting a very nice job. You currently imagine that after you reach that goal you will live a much happier life. When you actually reach that goal, you indeed become very happy with it. But it don't lasts long. It becomes sort of default thing, sort of like the thing that automatically is present, and so you start to desire more. And the cycle repeats forever.
This raises the question, Does the possession of physical luxuries or name and fame real source of happiness ? What is the cirtieria to be happy and how to achieve it.
Everybody can find out example in their life such as mine:
Few months ago, I had dreamt of making a magnetic levitator (A device to suspend magnetic objects in mid-air) myself. I thought that it would be such a nice thing to display it in my room. I thought that would be my ultimate project and I would earn lot of fame from it. I thought it would be my ultimate joy.
I finally made it. It indeed gave me joy and happiness. I even got some praisings. But they were all temporary. Like buildings made of ashes. The levitator now resides in a corner of my room and I (and my brother) don't have much any interest in it now.
The irony is that, knowing all of this I am again interested in doing yet another similar similar project, in the hope that the happiness brought by it would be long lasting?
Some of you might exclaim, "whats wrong with such thing, after all it gives you happiness, atleast for some time. Happiness for some time is better than no happiness at all." But what about the pains involved in it.What about the labour involved. I had stayed for late nights and mishandeled health and hygine to get the project working. And the worst of all is that if the plan don't succeed you will get pain.
The real question is, what is it that achieving the goal provides which you already don't have. Afterall happineess resides in mind. Why can't you be happy right away? Having read all of this and moreover being convinced that happiness brought to you after you achive your current goal won't last long, why do you still think --"I am not very happy now, to be very happy I need to achieve this/that/pat/hat etc?"
I hope I din't bore you.
Thanks for reading.
Its surprising to notice that humans are trapped in unendding chain of desires.
You are currently working for a goal, say for example getting a very nice job. You currently imagine that after you reach that goal you will live a much happier life. When you actually reach that goal, you indeed become very happy with it. But it don't lasts long. It becomes sort of default thing, sort of like the thing that automatically is present, and so you start to desire more. And the cycle repeats forever.
This raises the question, Does the possession of physical luxuries or name and fame real source of happiness ? What is the cirtieria to be happy and how to achieve it.
Everybody can find out example in their life such as mine:
Few months ago, I had dreamt of making a magnetic levitator (A device to suspend magnetic objects in mid-air) myself. I thought that it would be such a nice thing to display it in my room. I thought that would be my ultimate project and I would earn lot of fame from it. I thought it would be my ultimate joy.
I finally made it. It indeed gave me joy and happiness. I even got some praisings. But they were all temporary. Like buildings made of ashes. The levitator now resides in a corner of my room and I (and my brother) don't have much any interest in it now.
The irony is that, knowing all of this I am again interested in doing yet another similar similar project, in the hope that the happiness brought by it would be long lasting?
Some of you might exclaim, "whats wrong with such thing, after all it gives you happiness, atleast for some time. Happiness for some time is better than no happiness at all." But what about the pains involved in it.What about the labour involved. I had stayed for late nights and mishandeled health and hygine to get the project working. And the worst of all is that if the plan don't succeed you will get pain.
The real question is, what is it that achieving the goal provides which you already don't have. Afterall happineess resides in mind. Why can't you be happy right away? Having read all of this and moreover being convinced that happiness brought to you after you achive your current goal won't last long, why do you still keep thinking deeply that --"I am not very happy now, to be very happy I need to achieve this/that/pat/hat etc?"
I hope I din't bore you.
Thanks for reading.
You are currently working for a goal, say for example getting a very nice job. You currently imagine that after you reach that goal you will live a much happier life. When you actually reach that goal, you indeed become very happy with it. But it don't lasts long. It becomes sort of default thing, sort of like the thing that automatically is present, and so you start to desire more. And the cycle repeats forever.
This raises the question, Does the possession of physical luxuries or name and fame real source of happiness ? What is the cirtieria to be happy and how to achieve it.
Everybody can find out example in their life such as mine:
Few months ago, I had dreamt of making a magnetic levitator (A device to suspend magnetic objects in mid-air) myself. I thought that it would be such a nice thing to display it in my room. I thought that would be my ultimate project and I would earn lot of fame from it. I thought it would be my ultimate joy.
I finally made it. It indeed gave me joy and happiness. I even got some praisings. But they were all temporary. Like buildings made of ashes. The levitator now resides in a corner of my room and I (and my brother) don't have much any interest in it now.
The irony is that, knowing all of this I am again interested in doing yet another similar similar project, in the hope that the happiness brought by it would be long lasting?
Some of you might exclaim, "whats wrong with such thing, after all it gives you happiness, atleast for some time. Happiness for some time is better than no happiness at all." But what about the pains involved in it.What about the labour involved. I had stayed for late nights and mishandeled health and hygine to get the project working. And the worst of all is that if the plan don't succeed you will get pain.
The real question is, what is it that achieving the goal provides which you already don't have. Afterall happineess resides in mind. Why can't you be happy right away? Having read all of this and moreover being convinced that happiness brought to you after you achive your current goal won't last long, why do you still think --"I am not very happy now, to be very happy I need to achieve this/that/pat/hat etc?"
I hope I din't bore you.
Thanks for reading.
Its surprising to notice that humans are trapped in unendding chain of desires.
You are currently working for a goal, say for example getting a very nice job. You currently imagine that after you reach that goal you will live a much happier life. When you actually reach that goal, you indeed become very happy with it. But it don't lasts long. It becomes sort of default thing, sort of like the thing that automatically is present, and so you start to desire more. And the cycle repeats forever.
This raises the question, Does the possession of physical luxuries or name and fame real source of happiness ? What is the cirtieria to be happy and how to achieve it.
Everybody can find out example in their life such as mine:
Few months ago, I had dreamt of making a magnetic levitator (A device to suspend magnetic objects in mid-air) myself. I thought that it would be such a nice thing to display it in my room. I thought that would be my ultimate project and I would earn lot of fame from it. I thought it would be my ultimate joy.
I finally made it. It indeed gave me joy and happiness. I even got some praisings. But they were all temporary. Like buildings made of ashes. The levitator now resides in a corner of my room and I (and my brother) don't have much any interest in it now.
The irony is that, knowing all of this I am again interested in doing yet another similar similar project, in the hope that the happiness brought by it would be long lasting?
Some of you might exclaim, "whats wrong with such thing, after all it gives you happiness, atleast for some time. Happiness for some time is better than no happiness at all." But what about the pains involved in it.What about the labour involved. I had stayed for late nights and mishandeled health and hygine to get the project working. And the worst of all is that if the plan don't succeed you will get pain.
The real question is, what is it that achieving the goal provides which you already don't have. Afterall happineess resides in mind. Why can't you be happy right away? Having read all of this and moreover being convinced that happiness brought to you after you achive your current goal won't last long, why do you still think --"I am not very happy now, to be very happy I need to achieve this/that/pat/hat etc?"
I hope I din't bore you.
Thanks for reading.
Its surprising to notice that humans are trapped in unendding chain of desires.
You are currently working for a goal, say for example getting a very nice job. You currently imagine that after you reach that goal you will live a much happier life. When you actually reach that goal, you indeed become very happy with it. But it don't lasts long. It becomes sort of default thing, sort of like the thing that automatically is present, and so you start to desire more. And the cycle repeats forever.
This raises the question, Does the possession of physical luxuries or name and fame real source of happiness ? What is the cirtieria to be happy and how to achieve it.
Everybody can find out example in their life such as mine:
Few months ago, I had dreamt of making a magnetic levitator (A device to suspend magnetic objects in mid-air) myself. I thought that it would be such a nice thing to display it in my room. I thought that would be my ultimate project and I would earn lot of fame from it. I thought it would be my ultimate joy.
I finally made it. It indeed gave me joy and happiness. I even got some praisings. But they were all temporary. Like buildings made of ashes. The levitator now resides in a corner of my room and I (and my brother) don't have much any interest in it now.
The irony is that, knowing all of this I am again interested in doing yet another similar similar project, in the hope that the happiness brought by it would be long lasting?
Some of you might exclaim, "whats wrong with such thing, after all it gives you happiness, atleast for some time. Happiness for some time is better than no happiness at all." But what about the pains involved in it.What about the labour involved. I had stayed for late nights and mishandeled health and hygine to get the project working. And the worst of all is that if the plan don't succeed you will get pain.
The real question is, what is it that achieving the goal provides which you already don't have. Afterall happineess resides in mind. Why can't you be happy right away? Having read all of this and moreover being convinced that happiness brought to you after you achive your current goal won't last long, why do you still keep thinking deeply that --"I am not very happy now, to be very happy I need to achieve this/that/pat/hat etc?"
I hope I din't bore you.
Thanks for reading.