The fair mix of successes and failures are very essential for a balanced life. A person who achieves only successes in life becomes arrogant or egoistic and a person who has only seen failures becomes a depressed person. Some Urdu Poet has aptly said it ..
" Garzishe Ayaam tera shukriya, mai ne har pahloo se zindgee dekh lee
( Thanks to the vagaries of fate that I have seen life from all aspects).
As life is a mix of good and bad experiences , the ups and downs in life should be taken as challenges. If life moves smooth and there are no challenges in life, life becomes dull and a person is deprived of the joy of overcoming the difficulties in life. Life is short and we have to live it judiciously.Our aim should be to derive maximum joy from life , as great philosophers have said that...Happy truely is the Great...
Different persons derive happiness from different sources . some people derive happiness by amassing huge wealth and property , some from meditation and penance and some get it from indulging in vices like drinking and gambling. But the question arises can a person achieve everlasting happiness by doing such things. History bears testimony to the fact that no rich man remained happy throughout his life.Vices likes Drinking etc may give a momentary happiness but it is not everlasting. The meditation etc.may give happiness to a large extent, but it is not also everlasting. In order to achieve this goal a person has to decide before investing, where he can get returns in the form of everlasting happiness.
Therefore, in my opinion, in order to acheive everlasting happiness, we should bring some creativeness in our life. We should do something , which we love to do consciously, ethically, Spiritually or intllectually , devoid of pecuniary interests and craving for fame.
It can also be a small step towards the great philosophy of Nishkam Karma as envisaged by Lord Krishna in Bhagwat Gita.
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