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Where is the happiness?

What is happiness?   Happiness is the state of the mind. It is when we are fresh, relaxed, calm, composed. When we are happy?  When the things go as per our requirement. When we are going out for a movie, when people clap and cheer for us, when we get good marks, when we are in a family function, when our favourite dish is being served. We are happy when our surroundings are happy. And the real happiness is…   Real happiness lies within us. It means that happiness lies inside not outside. Many of us, most of the times, find the happiness in the materialistic things. However, the real happiness lies in small things.Small things means observing nature, spending quality time with family and friends, exercising, helping the needy people, planting saplings or doing anything you like but creative. Thus I end this chapter by saying that happiness has no conditions. We can be happy anytime, anywhere. Will be coming back in a couple of weeks.

Belief vs. blind belief

What is belief?      It is the trust and confidence you put on someone or something. Why should we believe?     Without putting confidence on something we cannot complete our task with that person or thing. When and where should we believe?     Every time! Everywhere! Whom should we believe?     Yes! That is the biggest question! Now, this question may contradict with the statement which I made  above, which was 'when and where should we believe…every time and every where.’ Therefore there lies some caution. We should understand the difference between believing and blindly believing. We have to figure it out. Ok. Let’s take a few examples. We sit in a flight having the confidence in the pilot. That is blind belief. We get a call from a person claiming to be a bank employee and he asks for your account number and credit card number. Now, this person might be a fraud. Hence, we should cut the conversation immediately.   But what if we get some sort of help from our known