This is a very obvious question which startles us and we are lost in dismay as where does this simple word HAPPINESS exist. Sometimes I feel whether it is really there or it has kept herself dormant. Once I asked my mom, “Where does happiness stay?” to which my mom very reluctantly answered, “happiness is not what the outer world gives, it stays within you and you have to search it out”. That moment of time, I could not follow her words. But now as I reminisce, I recollect and try to understand each words of her. In a very simple language my mom wanted to tell me that happiness is when you feel happy not when others try to make you happy.
She was so true, an emotion which lives within us and we try to search it outside. We tend to search outside what we can develop or get from within. We never tend to look for the inner beauty which determines the outer being that appeals the most. Same happens with the our emotions. We tend to love others with the hope of getting love from them, trying to make them happy with aspiration that we too will be happy, we tend to laugh with others as that makes others laugh too. Really, are we superficial or is the world too mechanical?
I have searched every in and out to get the appropriate answer to the question arising in my mind like the endless waves of sea. It is then that I came across the the book 'Man's Search for Meaning: by Frankl, Viktor E. Lasch, Ilse Kushner, Harold S.'. This is a psychological book where the author tries to answer to all the indefinite questions and give meaning to the unknown queries. I found this book quite informative in terms of answering to my inquisitive mind. This book on psychology did make my mind light by reliving me from the questions. I find this book a good guidance to answer life in the best way.
