The Spirit of Living
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I always asked myself and also posted this question to my friends.
Why do you work?
To me, one works so that he/she is able to earn a keep to sustain the kind of life that one enjoys.
In living a Life, I'm sure majority of us aim to be happy. There are many ways of becoming happy and of course many standards and expectations of what happiness is.
To a mother with a sick child, happiness is as simple as the child getting well and that's what matters most to her.
To a person living in extreme poverty, happiness is just knowing that there is food to sustain life for one more day.
To some, happiness might mean getting a luxury car, expensive property, club membership.
The way one was born into Life and how one was brought up will largely affect and impact their measure and expectations of happiness in Life.
I had always been asking myself, when was the last time I experienced happiness thay is not superficial.
Happiness need not be loud bouts of laughter and crazy jokes. To me happiness is being at peace with yourself and being able to take control of your life to create happiness for yourself instead of relying on others to make you happy.
It can be as simple as knowing that there is something to look forward to, a goal to achieve, a date with friends, completing a task and many more.
I suppose these are what we term simple pleasures in Life.
I feel sad for the current state of society.
With all the marketing and media around, it had somehow tweak and obscured the meaning of happiness.
The new generation is brought up in such a way with constant exposure to well-planned and highly executed marketing campaign.
Where did that simple pleasure of flying a kite, taking a relaxing bike ride or having a simple potluck go?
As said, it all boils down to the measure and expectation of happiness that we had been atuned to.
Alas, the change of Life, unknown to many others...
Quote: "Take the opportunity to jump into a puddle or play in the rain. You will be surprised at the amount of happiness you had been missing."
~I'm JasunZ, Without Wax - Since 1982~
Nothing is impossible, the impossible just takes longer.
I always asked myself and also posted this question to my friends.
Why do you work?
To me, one works so that he/she is able to earn a keep to sustain the kind of life that one enjoys.
In living a Life, I'm sure majority of us aim to be happy. There are many ways of becoming happy and of course many standards and expectations of what happiness is.
To a mother with a sick child, happiness is as simple as the child getting well and that's what matters most to her.
To a person living in extreme poverty, happiness is just knowing that there is food to sustain life for one more day.
To some, happiness might mean getting a luxury car, expensive property, club membership.
The way one was born into Life and how one was brought up will largely affect and impact their measure and expectations of happiness in Life.
I had always been asking myself, when was the last time I experienced happiness thay is not superficial.
Happiness need not be loud bouts of laughter and crazy jokes. To me happiness is being at peace with yourself and being able to take control of your life to create happiness for yourself instead of relying on others to make you happy.
It can be as simple as knowing that there is something to look forward to, a goal to achieve, a date with friends, completing a task and many more.
I suppose these are what we term simple pleasures in Life.
I feel sad for the current state of society.
With all the marketing and media around, it had somehow tweak and obscured the meaning of happiness.
The new generation is brought up in such a way with constant exposure to well-planned and highly executed marketing campaign.
Where did that simple pleasure of flying a kite, taking a relaxing bike ride or having a simple potluck go?
As said, it all boils down to the measure and expectation of happiness that we had been atuned to.
Alas, the change of Life, unknown to many others...
Quote: "Take the opportunity to jump into a puddle or play in the rain. You will be surprised at the amount of happiness you had been missing."
~I'm JasunZ, Without Wax - Since 1982~
Nothing is impossible, the impossible just takes longer.
posted by Without Wax at 8:04 AM
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