Moment of Happiness

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

It is said that we have to live our life happily. Most of the people explain that the life is full of sorrows and they have no time to get happiness in their life. The philosophers and religious leaders would argue that happiness can’t be obtained from this materialistic world rather we have to get transcend. If we evaluate the idealistic ideas of Plato, he argued that the complete bliss can be obtained if we abandon the worldly pleasure. Is the materialistic life is full of sorrow only? Can we make it happy or not? Are there any means that we can make our life happy?

Today is Teacher’s Day. As I am a teacher I went to school by 8.15am. I have the habit of going to school earlier though the school starts at 10.00am. I had taken meal and started my regular duty. I always stay in the ground looking after children so that they can’t do wrong after 9.00am to the assembly time. I was staying in the ground and one of the students of class seven had come with khata and put on my neck. I felt glad when she put on that khata with respect. Other students gave me pens and some of them gave me flowers. So I felt joyful at that moment and thought to analyze the meaning of happiness in human life.

As I encountered with the incident I have realized the meaning of happiness in my life. I didn’t get the bliss like the idealistic philosophy of Plato but I have realized the moment of life with happiness. The happiness can’t be found if we go for search. There is no such place where we can get happiness in our life. I think that we have to utilize the moment what we have got. Really life isn’t full of sorrow as we have weaknesses so that we can’t recognize the moment. We have been feeling miseries only or we have feelings that our life is full of miseries only. Though we have happiness we have forgotten that and tried to remember the negative aspects of life only.

As we have realized the moment, we can be happy all the time. I want to explain one more example of our activities. Suppose that we have planned to dig a field. If we think that the field is too much then we can’t get happiness. If we see the work what we have done, we can realize the happiness from the work. So the context should be changed to get happiness in our life. We can create happiness if we can recognize the moment. If we have taken the completed work then we can be happy all the time; if we think about the work to be finished, we can’t be happy at all.

Thus we have to look from third eye to get happiness in our life. Our life has been guided by the ambition so we can’t have any pleasure in our life. We have to learn to play happily within the long course of our ambition. There is no such success that would make us full and no step should be paced. Rather we can get pleasure within failure also neither is our life is useless.

It means neither we have to avoid the material pleasure nor should we have to spend the ascetic life. We can make our life happy itself if we can recognize the moment and its positive aspects. The happiness what I have got may be transitory but I have been pleased throughout the day. So the momentum of life is important to get or make our life much happier, joyful, pleasurable, blissful and so on.