Happiness

Nandy Sahab! Dil khush kar diya apne.. Khuda apko salamat rakhe!

"This is a radical thought for the happiness athletes to consider — the presence of the unpleasant does not necessarily mean the diminution of happiness. The unpleasant becomes part of a happy life that oscillates between the pleasant and the unpleasant, achievement and failure, being and becoming, work and play. In such a life, work becomes vocation and leisure need not be reinvented as the antithesis of work. Vocation includes leisure, exactly as a pleasurable pastime may comprise some work. The idea of perfect happiness is consigned to the domain of the momentary, the transient or the mythic. It can’t be achieved in life, but may be realised in exceptional moments.

According to philosopher KJ Shah, the strength of a human relationship should be measured not by the absence of quarrels, but by how much quarrelling the relationship can take. This argument, too, has a parallel definition of happiness built into it: a happy person should be able to bear larger doses of unhappiness. This is not oriental wisdom; to Freud, too, mentally healthy people show their sense of well-being by being able to live with some unhappiness and what is commonly seen as ill-health."

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