Happiness vs Maturity

The world is full of serious people... They call themselves mature. They claim to be the true followers of happiness... The paradox they keep following and searching for happiness.

Both from Personal and Professional angles I have seen how the false idea and belief called "maturity" creates so many boundaries and barriers within you, that fear, restlessness and anger become your friends.

Everyday I meet a lot of brave people. These are the people who have the guts to walk into my clinic. They master the courage to seek help and break social taboo of visiting a counselor....I respect each one them a lot and I consider each one of them as a teacher... contrary to popular belief, I being a psychiatrist I till date haven't met a mad person... But i meet people surrounded by negativity. I see how every single one of them was  living a life of happiness and joy, but suddenly they became 'mature'... They started putting boundaries to their happiness... They started increasing the expectations...and They started becoming sad!!

Commonly 3 forms of happiness exist for an individual-

1. The momentary happiness we get from what we eat, wear, touch, see or smell.

2. The happiness we get after long term struggle to achieve a goal. Passing an exam, getting a desired post, making huge sum of money, marrying the girls/guy of our dreams, getting your children married, etc

3. and The happiness one gets by detaching from the above two.

While scholars and mature people would debate which is the best of the three happiness.. my take on the same is very simple... Happiness in all forms is great.

Life is neither full of fortune that makes us happy, nor of misfortune designed to make us unhappy. Life is a chain of events and circumstances.

While every day millions around the world search for inner peace... They forget that happiness lies in front of them. You just need to be a child and embrace it.

For sometime in the day, leave your maturity aside and embrace the joy of being alive.
This joy is completely yours.. its not dependent on your boss, your spouse, your parents or your children... Its yours... Enjoy it because that's a daily gift from the universe we all forget to unwrap.

Dr.Hemant Mittal
www.mindmantra.in
email - eksoch@gmail.com

1 comment:

  1. Happiness does not depend on any achievement.It is a state of mind being in happiness.We have to learn to be with but at same time to detached.Don't make any good or bad to part of you.Stay away each one of such things.

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