Everytime I say I'm back I'm gone for a couple of months. So this time I won't say I'm back. Hello World.
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Spending more than 19 years in this world, one of those many conclusions that I made about the human species is that more than 90% of us are thinking that they're having a happy life but they don't.
Happiness is a state of mind or feeling such as contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. Or thats what wikipedia says. Its not the feeling of happiness that misleads people, its what they do to achieve it. To come straight to the point, I believe we have to satisfy someone else to get our own happiness... or in more crude terms, kiss someone's a**.
Disagree with me??? Think about it for a second... You're getting a promotion or a bonus for a job - by impressing the boss. A student to get a prize, he has to satisfy the teacher. Every son has to satisfy their parents to get his first bicycle. Numerous other instances can be stated which all make the same point - happiness don't come for free.
I guess you'll agree with that too. And that's how it has been, its meant to be. Hard work pays, losers stay losers. But its not the hard workers or the losers that i'm flabbergasted about... its the guys in the middle. Lets call them the miserables. They burn the midnight oil, working their asses off, jumping off the roof, thinking that they'll fly... but often forgetting that they don't have wings. They land hard on the ground and think why in the hell they jumped off the roof in the first place. Because they always want more than they'll get. They take themselves too serious and end up getting too miserable. They'll sulk, they'll loathe, feel sick of the world around them. They'll hate the winners, get jealous of them and spend more time watching out for them than concentrate on their work.
The difference between the miserables and the other guys are that they get contented with what they get. Since the miserables want to beat the others rather than actually achieve something, they'll stay miserable.
For the miserables - they should be contented with what they get, and try to work hard the next time. That is the only way they'll become ex-miserables.
For the non-miserables - Think about what you are working towards. Think about whether it is worth all the hard work. Working hard for something that doesn't make you happy gets you under the miserable category.
For a more interesting version of the stuff i said above, I recommend watching a movie called Jerry Maguire. Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr., play the leads roles.
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I'm afraid I might be getting a little sanctimonious.
Ciao
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