What Makes a Happy Life??

TUESDAY____19.54

According to an Eastern tale, a king, who failed to find happiness, sought the advice of his courtiers.The wise ones advised him to wear the shirt of happy man. So, soldiers were sent all over the country to fetch a happy man's shirt. Though the men met many people who had shirts , none of these people was happy. The story concludes that, finally when they managed to find a happy man, it turned out that he had no shirt. The tale, of course is not meant to be taken literally; yet the sagacity it implies is significant.

It is hard to decide what makes a happy life, for me~i cannot agree on a definition of happiness that is acceptable to all. One man's idea of a happy life will be entirely different from another man's and what a third man considers to be a happy life may be acceptable neither to the first nor to the second. Before try to decide what makes a happy life, we have to be quite definite what sort of happiness we aim to achieve.

As the 'LOTUS EATERS' asked ~~~WHY SHOULD LIFE ALL LABOUR BE??? such an attitude may enable one to achieve a certain measure of happiness------all that is needed is that mental capacity to feel contented with one's lot in life, whatever it be.....it may be asked in the face of the harsh realities of life, when insurmountable obstacles choke one's ambitions, when one's cherished hopes and desires burst like bubbles as if by the pin-pricks of a malignant fate, is it humanly possible to feel contented and wrap oneself in happy thoughts?????WELL~~~i do not know; all i am certain is that~~nothing can make your life happy unless you know how to feel happy.........