Myth Around Happiness!

Let me start my argument around happiness with a story:

There was a town that was rich with natural abundance and had the best of resources mother earth had to offer. Everyone in that town had their specific roles and most of them to an extent were content with them.

One fine day a saint from a faraway place visited that town and was blown away by the generosity of the people.

He was so impressed with their hospitality and their affection that he asked them to make a wish.

The head of that town bowed down and asked: 'O dearest son of the lord of anything you want to grant, please grant us the boom of happiness'.

I want everyone in this town to remain happy for the rest of their lives.

As asked, the wish was granted, after granting the wish, the saint departed for his journey ahead.

After few years when the saint returned back to the town, he found that the very soul of that town was missing.

Though everything looked all right the basic essence of that town was gone.

To dig dip into the matter, he called the head of the town and asked what is going on?

The head replied: 'Dear Lord, your grant worked instantly but with no sadness or struggle around people have lost the value of happiness, in other words, the brightest of color with repetitive stroke appears a bit pale now'

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Not many will be able to relate to what I am saying but you need emotions. For some reason, we are bombarded with the thought that you must remain happy all the time or do only what makes you happy.

No doubt happiness is the key but maniacally searching for it robs away such key lessons from our life.

Every emotion comes with a message and it's so crucial to understand and act on it.

We must not shy away from discomfort, or run away from the pain, rather these are things we must embrace.

We must remember anything new or different will always feel hard at the start and we must respect that.

When sad we need to learn to cry out our heart so that we can laugh out loud when pleasurable moments come.

Happiness should not be our end goal rather it must be embraced like any other emotion.

More than the happiness we must seek awareness of emotions all the time.

We must learn to listen to our emotions and calm them down if they are unpleasant.

This is the true sense of Yoga, the union of mind and body, this is the boom we must try and seek.

I hope, I am able to express my idea here with some clarity, all I want to tell here is that if you are not happy at the moment it doesn't mean there is something wrong in your life, it simply means that out of countless opportunities you have around you, you are stuck with only one :)

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