Is having a house made
of gold, a happiness? Or is having a small hut with golden people to live with,
a happiness? Happiness might be anything. It lies in different ways or things
for different person. For a baby, being in its mother’s arms might be happiness
whereas for an old man a call from his distant son/daughter might be happiness.
Eating kabab might be happiness for a person whereas the thrown away bones are
happiness to a street dog. Coming first might be happiness for few students
where as just getting pass marks might be happiness for others. The happiness
differs from individual to individual. But the true happiness is found only in
you. Yes You. As the author of the beautiful book “The Book of happiness”
describes, “Happiness doesn’t come out from nowhere. The reality is you can
create your own happiness by choosing what you do, what you say, where you go,
what you do, what you think and what you listen to”. Live each and every moment
of your life like the last adventure of your life, and then your life will be
filled with never ending happiness.
This beautiful book
called “The Book of Happiness” gives the brilliant ideas on how to transform one’s
life. Sounds simple yet it gives lot more to the life. The authors of the book
Heather Summers and Anne Watson came up with interesting findings which is
common across the age are that, a good health has no affect on a person’s
health and it doesn’t lead to happiness. But certainly, the poor health leads
to unhappiness.
Happiness doesn’t always
mean a positive happiness. It shifts as per the situations. For instance,
comparing ourselves to others affects our happiness. Generally, people tend to
compare themselves with others. They look at others in what they have and this
will end up being unhappy and discontent.
Happiness can be
different for different people as mentioned earlier above. For few, money
brings pleasure. But for few others, it doesn’t give any happiness. It is
rightly said that money cannot bring you happiness.
Therefore, here I am to
give some simple ways to be happy after going through this book. We see that
the world is stressed. There is no stop for worries. People are frustrated and
are chasing behind the money. The world needs peace. And for this, happiness is
required. There are few questions to be asked to for self understanding as to
how happy you are. Are you happy in where you live and work? Do you like to
learn new things? When things go wrong, do you remember any happy times? Do you
like the way you are? Do you make use of your talents that you have? Do you
cherish every moment that fill your life? Questions like this will let one know
where he/she stands. One thing that everyone has to accept is there is no end
for the problems.
The world is the stage
and we are merely the players. We come, stay and go. We have our entries and
exits. Being happy will lead us to live the life to the fullest. The author in
the book says that be happy for whatever one has in their life. Happiness can
be found in small things. Happiness is a skill. It need not be inherited. The
habit of learning happiness is to behave in a cheerful way and if you do this
consistently, you will genuinely feel happy.
Happiness and sadness
are meant for free. Sometimes, life becomes so serious that we forget to laugh.
There is always negativity ruling over positiveness. So continue laughing or
smiling even if the day goes bad. Because it is the only way to make your lives
go easier.
Take things positively.
If something goes wrong continuously, take it as a challenge. See it in a
different way and try to find the solution. Misery will not help to solve the
problem. It is only your confidence, hope and smile (happiness) that you carry
will help you to resolve the problem.
Spreading smiles and
happiness across, is the most beautiful thing one can do. You can make others
happy by supporting them when they lose hopes, or encouraging them when they
try to do something good. Develop this habit because it is the unique way where
people will have a good impression.
Happiness can be a
mood, a state or a feeling. People who are successful and rich don’t mean that
they are happy. They crave for happiness. They try to find happiness in others.
That is why they get into charities and do the charitable activities. This will
help them to bring some kind of satisfaction and ultimately lead them to
happiness.
One can find happiness
in the work that they do. If you get that feeling of happiness in the work you
do then trust me you are on the right track. Happiness can lead to achieve the goals
in our life.
The author of this book
gives various suggestions or the ideas to develop the happiness habit in the
surroundings. I would like to share few of it from this book.
1.
List what you love: This is like what
you love the most in each and every incident that takes place in your life. May
be the food you eat, the work you do, the place you live or the people you have
in your life.
2.
What can you change around you: A person
cannot like everything in his life. But he can take things in a different way
or take the situations in a different perspective. Take things easily.
3.
Start with what is easy: If you want to
change something in your life, then start it with the easy things. Because change
is good and the feeling of getting changed will help you to think positive
about yourself.
4.
Consider impossible actions: Yes! Small things
do bring happiness. But if the impossible things are made possible, the feeling
of happiness is out of the world. Think big, and achieve it. And you can see
your life shining.
I
suggest you all to read this book, because it is not only interesting but gives
values to the life. So please grab this book and take the values that this book
is giving, because they are so essential and lead us towards what we want.
