Happiness or Contentment

I reckon that people all over the world are craving happiness and we often hear the words "yaar - pata nahin kyon but main khush nahin hoon, kuch mazaa nahin aa raha life mein." I really don't understand what happiness are they talking about. Do we even understand what happiness is?

As in my previous post the problem with happiness is that there are no clear parameters to it. Our benchmarks of happiness keep changing with circumstances.

In this scenario I think its important to begin by understanding what really makes us happy and what does happiness mean to us? Is it being together with family? Is it reaching the top position in an organisation or is it giving joy to others? Whats that one thing that will make us happy.

Once we have understod that one factor, we should be focused on achieveing just that. We have to properly plan and be relentless in our approach once we are set on something. Write it down in front of you, break it into various milestones but work towards it.

I firmly believe that to achieve great happiness you have to under go great hard work and sadness too.

Please don't change the yardstick once you have achieved something. At the end of the day I beleive its not happiness but contentment that matters.

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In this post I have tried to debate this lack of happiness syndrome and debate how we can go ahead pursuing happiness. Your comments will be enlightening. Please let me know how you would measure happiness and your approach to happiness.