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The
Search For Happiness
by
Bernard Voo
I
was compelled to write to everyone after a fellow friend told
me she is searching for happiness.
Once
upon a time there was a boy who went on a search for "happiness".
He found a toy car and he had a great time playing with it. He
eats with it, studies with it and even sleeps with it. Then one
day he accidentally broke it and it was beyond repair. He cried
and cried and for days he was unhappy. His parents brought him
another but he only wanted that car…
Then
finally his parents decided to buy him a bicycle hoping their
son would find "happiness". True enough he was delighted!
Looking at their son finally smile again was a great relieve to
the caring parents. He rode the bicycle night and day, day after
day, week after week. Life was merry. Then one day his bike was
stolen...The boy was so mad he jumped and jumped, kicking and
punching everything he saw. Life was miserable for him. There
were many beautiful things around him but he couldn't see it.
Life was miserable...
He
decided he was going to buy himself another bike, this time round
it's going to be a better bike and he would buy the best lock
in the world to lock it. After months of savings he did exactly
that. True enough he was delighted. He went to school and he started
showing off to his friends. It was great! The kids loved it and
they all asked if they could ride it for a while. "Of course
not!" he said. It was after all his most precious!
Seeing
him so arrogant, his friends all left him. The boy was now alone
playing with his toy day in and day out. Soon he felt lonely.
He tried to entice his friends to play with him but they were
not keen. Life was miserable again...
I
can go on writing but I believe you're starting to get my point.
Human being went on a journey to look for happiness, in actual
fact what they found was a stimulant, not happiness.
As the stimulant brings them joy, they equate it to joy. Thus
when it was taken away from them they become "unhappiness".
To overcome the unhappiness, they replace it with another stimulant
and when this stimulant wears off they get "unhappiness"
again.
We
basically replace a problem with a solution that is potentially
another problem.
So
what is happiness? Happiness is a state of mind. A choice that
we don't usually make. The late Rev. Anthony Demello once said
that "We usually do not choose to be happy, otherwise why
are we unhappy?"
The
truth is: True happiness comes from within, not without.
Until
and unless you realized that you are actually already happy, that
YOU are HAPPINESS itself, all your other happiness you found are
just an illusion—fragile and temporary—because it
doesn't even exist except in your mind.
Question:
I am jobless, my debts are pilling and my family needs money,
how can I be happy at times like this?
Answer:
You may not be happy but it is unnecessary to be unhappy.
Be focus, put all your attention and heart to what you are doing
and not the results of it. If you are looking for a job, LOOK
for it, KNOCK on the doors! Not whether or not will you get the
job. If you are closing a deal, CLOSED the deal! Not whether or
not if the customer would buy.
Question:
What if everything I do doesn't give me the results?
Answer:
Then doing would be better than not doing. Least you know you
have done it and CORRECTIONS can be made.
Question:
But I have debts that keeps piling, how can I afford to make mistakes
and corrections?
Answer:
Either way your debts would still pile. If you had done your best
and I mean your best, and your debts still piles, it is
still better than not doing or BEING your best. If all systems
down, you became a bankrupt, that's what it is: "Bankrupt",
not the end of the world. Sometime that's how things are and it
may become an opportunity for you. So if you are stuck to your
feelings of unhappiness you will be like the boy who misses all
the beautiful things around him. Stop feeling miserable and sorry,
and start looking; be alert and aware. Perhaps this is the best
time for you to be the brand new you?
With
love I bless you all happiness and good fortune.
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