Being Happy
We search for happiness in eager anticipation and joyful memories, but it may be life’s simple and everyday gifts that sustain our contentment.
This Psychology Today article, though a bit lenghthy read, has some insightful arguments, specifically from a nobel prize winning professor of psychology at Princeton, on how we can be more happier than we think we actually are.
Very early in my boyhood, i had chosen a principle to live my life by. I didnt consciously chose it to be so, but an often seen advertisement on television and newspapers for the “Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC)” had a simple tag line that sunk very deep in my heart and soul. At some point during my early adulthood, I was lucky enough to understand what that meant and I chose to call that as one of the key principles to live my life by. Ever since, I keep saying that as often as I could to remind and reinforce it. And that principle is : “Life is too wonderful to be spent worrying”