Happiness, such a relative term isn’t it? as relative as time. Different for every person out there living their life, driven by the unshakable faith that in the end happiness will knock your door and give a tight hug. More like being in a pursuit to find a herbivorous Lion. But we tend to forget that we ourselves defy happiness because we confuse it with numerous other things and let other people define it for us.

Satisfaction: A pearl inside the oyster of happiness
Satisfaction is the key to happiness. It’s more like a cocoon which leads to butterflies. Isn’t it the same? We must contain the things we get satisfied with. If we limit our needs we will always be satisfied. As of today, there is so much influx of eye-candy things around us that the only way to be truly satisfied is by triaging, metaphorically to separate the wheat from the chaff. It is an endless train full of candies, with new flavor at every station you want to taste it but deep down you know only a few flavors satisfy you. While I say this, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t aim for bigger things, just do not put your happiness at stake on them. You cannot be satisfied if you aim for reaching infinity where even the unshakable faith of us is ruffled. We need to gauge if after doing a particular thing are we going to be satisfied or not? One more thing we need to understand is that we need to accept the fact that happiness is always going to be like a sinusoidal wave, ups, and downs, it’s never going to be linear. That’s against the law of the universe.

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Another aspect is to be happy in the dark times. It’s in the very nature of humans to get percolate into darkness when time is playing against us. It’s often difficult to stray negative thoughts which surrounds are mind in such times. We need to resist ourselves from those candies especially in such times which try to abate our thought process, and as a result, we get drifted away from our path. But as Professor Dumbledore from Harry Potter says, “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light”. It is not necessary that the light should be like the ‘Sirius’-the brightest star, just a tiny candle is enough to illuminate you and make you walk the right path. The gist is that you need to be optimistic regardless of the circumstances. A tiny spark of optimism and satisfaction is enough to ignite a flame of happiness overshadowing the pessimism.

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You are walking and suddenly if a random person ask’s you “Are you happy?” and if you take a few seconds pause before answering, it means you are equivocal, uncertain whether you are happy or not. True happiness lies in satisfaction because if you attach a hook to every coming bogey of those candies, you will never be happy.