All Entries Tagged With: "What happiness means to me"

Happiness, to me, is when I have an ‘aha!!!’ experience—an insight about my own behaviour or about some well guarded subtle secret of life—even if it reveals a negative side of mine.

Happiness does exist. Truly our very being is happy. When I say “I am happy!” it’s a mood, a feeling which I can savor or experience for a span of time, then when I move I am something else.

Seemingly prosperous, India’s silicon city Bangalore has the highest number of suicides and cases of depression in India. Engineers working as coders are nothing but white-collar coolies busy as hell.
Double income coolie families have all the luxuries but rangolis are missing in front of their houses. They have airconditioned bedrooms with all the modern gadgets but they are full of stress and have restless sleep.

How are things? Good. Yeah, good. Fine. Things are fine. Let me ask that question again: How are things? Fabulous. It all feels like an adventure right now. I have synchronicities piling up everywhere. I’ve got all the money I need, in fact, it’s flowing good n’ steady. My skin is glowing. Most nights we [...]

Every action of an individual or anything that a human being does has one deeper need or aim behind it – the need to feel happy. We all seem to be driven somewhere in life by the inner urge to pursue happiness.   It was rightly said by Epicurus: “Happiness is man’s greatest aim in life.” [...]

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to be happy most days or every day of their lives? Simply happy that they have their family around them, that they survive everyday with their payout from their not-so-exciting jobs, or that they were able to eat three to four times a day. Is it madness, [...]

Being tickled is a very special physical sensation – a blend of tingling, excitation and delight. It is a form of concentrated pleasure that tends to be unbearable. It is all about being pleasantly surprised. Then there is tickling at the psychological level. You feel tickled when you are moved by a picturesque sight. You [...]

  What does happiness mean to a free spirit like me? Josh Billings said, “Don’t mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.” I completely agree with him. So, let’s first get clear what we mean by ‘happiness’ that we are talking about. Happiness involves making loving choices, one day, one moment [...]

I joined the working world 8 years ago upon graduating from the National University of Singapore. During the span of my career, I had been a researcher, an analyst, a project officer overseeing infrastructure projects and a customer service manager. Being a teacher is the latest entry in my career history. Life has offered me [...]