THE BAROMETER OF HAPPINESS
It has to be set within ourselves – it cannot record
happiness based on the conditions outside. Setting our happiness based on an
objective like ‘World Peace’ works only as beauty pageant rhetoric. That is why
so many of us flounder in misery. Our happiness is conditional and the
condition is an impossible or improbable criteria.
“If only my husband were more communicative”, “My children
more obedient”, “My waist thinner”, “My family more supportive”, “The oceans
plastic free”, “The Amazon would stop burning” – you see how this list for our
happiness grows? Like a virulent bacteria it multiplies our unhappiness and
like the Ebola virus it mutates into the incurable. From being unhappy with
your spouse to the plastic in the ocean is just one small leap for that mutant
gene of dissatisfaction…
Chuck out that external barometer that has unreasonable
parameters to record contentment – a slimmer waist, a fatter bank balance, a
communicative partner, plenty of non-Whatsapp friends, lustrous hair… Record
nothing. Everything turns to dust (now that
would be a household mantra to escape that chore) so why bother about anything
but this moment?
Right here, right now, this is a good day. Just live it. And
that thing called happiness? It cannot be measured – it is a variable. And,
like all variables it is based on one constant – your happiness lies within
you.
Now go find your bliss….
Nimmou Nilakantan
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