Am I really happy...??

So, here I am with my first blog.

What am i doing.. I have loads of work to do, and am supposed to finish it by tomorrow. If I complete it, I will get lot of appreciation, relaxed weekend, and ofcourse money and may be "happiness". But at this point of time, when all my room mates are fast asleep(3 am), I have got some time for myself. I am not feeling like working at all, neither falling asleep, though my eyes are paining :). But still I am feeling good and happy while writing this post.

So I thought, why not to be blissful now itself by completing this, rather completing my work and then wait for appreciation, money and uncertain happiness.

But do you know, whats real happiness. Ya, of course, you can define it or even if you don't know the exact definition, can get it from internet, dictionary and many other sources. All definitions say that its a some kinda state of mind etc etc. But none of them can tell you the exact reasons, how to attain it. You can find a person living on the road side, laughing and more delighted than the ones staying at present in Hotel Taj.

So you see, money, luxury, status or health are not the deciding factors. Actually it all depends on you, how do you want to see yourself. You can be happy even if you loose everything, and you can be sad, even if you have everything.

Usually we tend to see our past as happiest moments life, but I dont know whats wrong with present. When I was in college, people remembered their school days as their best days of life, now when they are in corporate world, they see their college days as the best. Even there are people who say.. their previous company was much better than current.. blah blah.. Come-on guys, why in this world then you left your last job, or college, or school?

Thinking practically, I dont feel that college days were better than today. Half of the time people used to be in trauma of the WTC incident and IT slow down. Now when somehow all of us got placed, the worries of making money, onsite, competition for promotion, business growth etc, everything have started occupying our minds. Again sadness. Just think, what if we had not got a job (like many other people in our country)? Isnt the current situation much better than before?

The problem is, we always take (personal and professional) challenges in life as reasons for wretchedness. Take them up as challenge, get motivated, fight the conditions, do your best, learn from failures and live the life to its. fullest.