Real Happiness-English Essay, Paragraph, Speech for Class 9, 10, 11 and 12 Students.

Real Happiness

Since time immemorial, man has been searching for happiness in mountains, forests, ashrams, clubs and cinemas. But where is happiness? Just to escape for a while from the boredom and monotony of everyday existence can hardly be termed happiness. Our life may be a round of pleasures but pleasures too, have their sting no less than pain. Happiness is a lasting state of mind, whereas pleasures are short-lived.

Happiness comes through self-sacrifice-getting a little out of ourselves and doing a little to improve the lot of suffering humanity. Happiness does not come through riches. A Ford, a Birla, a Dalmia or an Agha Khan has his own mental or health problems. In most cases, riches become a source of worry, not of happiness. “Blessed are the poor, for there is the kingdom of heaven”, so says the Bible. A rich man, used to travel in cars, may begin to suffer from gout. He may become snobbish, lustful and arrogant. He is liable to cut himself off from the source of life and he tends to be anti-social. Let there be no imaginary fears of poverty, disease and death. Instances are not lacking in the world, where poverty has been made into an instrument of perfection for the soul of man.

Happiness, in brief, results from a rough and ready acceptance of life as such, an adjustment to the realities of life, not from a high idealism which cries for the moon. Poverty often brings out the best in us by putting us on our mettle.

The only way to be happy is to be just happy under all conditions of body and mind. People, who are always complaining or petitioning or indulging in self-pity or harbouring ill-will against others (whatever the cause), seldom reach the gates of happiness.

Let us take life as a golden opportunity every morning we get up from our bed. Let us live a life according to some principles. Let us have some human ‘models’ before us and we will soon find life livable and lovable. Happiness in life vanishes as soon as we lose grip on it and become automations (during the current of life)-purposeless and aimless. Let us exert ourselves to the fullest to make ourselves fitting instruments of the Will of God. George Bernard Shaw says that most of our misery proceeds from a sense of not being wanted in this world.

If we associate ourselves with high ideals and noble causes and work for their realisation in our life, we will not be thrown like scrap on the dung heap. Let not one rigid routine of life deaden our higher urges and aspirations. To attain happiness in life, we have to develop a positive outlook against a negative attitude of life. We have to act with our whole being and put our heart and soul even into the little things we do every day; dancing, skating, singing, speaking and eating. Let us have no regrets for our past and no fears for our future. Life, then, would be like a merry song.

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