29 November 2013

Happiness



There have been many instances in my life where I have asked myself 'What is my purpose?'. What is our purpose in life as human beings? I mean it seems to me that we are all here for a reason and we all need a reason to keep pushing through our struggles in life. There is always something that pushes us on and surprisingly we all share this one thing. It is happiness. Think about it, everybody wants to be happy that is their sole purpose in life. What we want in our lives is happiness, though we may phrase it differently saying things like "I want my family to be happy" or "Having lots of money" etc. in the end it is our own happiness that matters.

Take for example a person who does community work, they would claim that they're here to serve and brighten others' lives but what they get out of it is their own happiness and thus the fulfillment of their desires. It kind of makes humans in general sound selfish but that is the truth. We are all here to enjoy life and be happy. That is the motive of every single act that you have ever undertaken since the time you were born and will remain the number one priority whether you know it or not. When we do do things that would not exactly make us happy, it is still done in the hope that something good might come out of it. We are all in an endless search for happiness however we may define happiness to be because happiness is subjective after all...


"So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past"

                                                                                                                            - F. Scott Fitzgerald