Success Must Not Be At the Cost Of Happiness

Happiness is a state of mind characterized by love,achievement and contentment.It can be physical  or psychological or both; and is derived through our materialistic and philosophical approaches.When you chase happiness it eludes you.Joyfulness is the soul’s natural state and all you need is to eliminate everything that comes between you and your cheerfulness. Our happiness is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slow destructive little things.

The Happiness is wrecked in two different forms.

Firstly,some people,not being able to differentiate between oasis and water,loose present happiness working for future comforts.

Secondly and mainly, many people suffer from sleepless nights not with existing problems but visualizing future problems with their imaginary effects.

We all know the story of a donkey that was whipped by the washer-man for braying in the midnight on seeing the thief when the dog refused to do its job.The morale of the story is “one must mind one’s own job”.

Here is the another version of the story. When the donkey advised the dog to bark,it said “I’m taking rest.” The donkey that read many “success quotes” without properly understanding the real meaning said,“You Rust If you take Rest” and started braying.The washer-man caught the thief and appreciated the donkey.He realized that it is capable of doing night watching also along with its existing job of carrying clothes.

He dispensed with the dog and increased the donkey’s grass quota for additional strength to be awake all the night.The donkey was happy remembering another success quote “Dreams Require Effortless Sleep,but aim requires Sleepless Efforts.The more we do, the more we can do”. With increased pampering by the employer,the donkey worked happily.But as the years passed by, It realized that it was squeezed of its charm, health and family.But it was too late.

Here’s the morale of the revised story :

One Should certainly aim for promotion,identify his core competency,discover hidden virtues and abilities and utilize his talents.But above all one should comprehend what price he is paying for his SUCCESS..!the price of success should never be his HAPPINESS..!Happiness should come by achieving Success.But happiness must never be paid to achieve success.

If you work for 22 hours a day,you should be able to work happily.But not cursing your-self.Everything should be O.K at the end of the day.If it is not,then it is not the end.

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