What’s the issue with my happiness? Where does it hide? Why does it slip away? Achieving happiness is scaling a mountain while all of us are inexperienced trekkers. Efforts put forth for a prolonged time filled with difficulties and failures finally led us to the peak. But when we begin to relish the taste of …
No one can understand me! How to manage the need to be understood?
No one can understand me. A scream of despair in the depths of darkness. A desperate plea to find an island of stable support in the storm of existence. No one can understand my feelings. An almost inaudible whisper. A quivering voice battered by the sheer hopelessness of efforts. Perhaps one did not want to …
Paradox of selfless service: How can selflessness lead to success?
Selfless service and success seem so opposite. In a world where everyone is out for themselves, can you even survive with something called selflessness? Inherently, we are selfish no matter how much good we do for others or think about others. That is how almost every human being functions. Progressing in life, being ahead than …
Happiness is a choice: What does it mean and how to choose it?
I was fuming when I stumbled upon the idea that happiness is a choice. It insulted everything I have ever felt in my life. It was a concept that invalidated all my emotions. Do you mean all the times I have suffered meant nothing? Do you think it is that easy to choose to be …
Where is my happiness? Manage the root cause of unhappiness
Where is my happiness? Happiness is the primary purpose of human existence. Whether we are conscious about it or not, we align all our actions towards this goal. In our search, we scale the highest mountains and explore the deepest valleys, literally and figuratively. Whether our actions are morally good or bad, ethical or unethical, …