THIS IS HAPPINESS, OR IS IT?

Life, a journey of experiences, is filled with innumerable times of different memories.

These memories are a turbulent flow of different emotions, all flowing down the same
lake of experiences. Quite enigmatically, this flow has different proportions of
emotions for every other person out there.
Amongst these emotions is Happiness. A word so easily said yet said to have been
shrouded by the fabric of dis-array. This is quite axiomatic in itself as although it is
the same emotion, yet is achieved by different means by every individual.
For Successful people, Success is in striving for a particular goal. Similarly, for a
married couple, it is a virtue granted to them by their marital status (provided they are
a matching couple). Contrary to the usual notion, it is also not restricted to age as age
helps to deal with problems of life hence happiness has a direct relation with age too.
On the other end of the spectrum, Happiness may not be having any link to status at
all. A person may be the king of a country with all the riches yet may not be happy
while a beggar may truly be. There is a myriad of people possessing a huge fortune
yet are reported to have fits of depression. Therefore, asking to be the happiest person
from Aladdin’s djinni may end up placing you in a tough gamble with djinni saying
“With utmost reverence master, MIND YOUR WORDS! I AM WARNING YOU!”
In addition to that, I believe religion also plays a major part in this regard. It teaches to
consider sadness as “light affliction which is but for a moment”. This mentality trains
the mind to overlook the sad part in order to stay in the happy state of mind. Hence
people having deep connection with their religion should be happy. At the same time,
it should also be kept in mind that the religious temperament is susceptible to more
grievous fits of misery than any other.
The society too plays a significant role as it seems that we take public affairs much
more tragically than they did in the eighteenth century, leading to a boost in public
calamities.
We may be able to decide when we look back at the retrospective kaleidoscope of
memories to decide when we were happy yet may not be able to decide it for the time-
being.
Therefore, quite odd though, it seems as if we have no clear approach towards the
subject. That we are entangled in a whirlwind of an emotion which distinguishably
has no direct means of being experienced. That we have spent a large chunk of our
lives approaching the most elusive goals of all and that goal being “In Pursuit of
Happiness”.