“ Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln (Watson, Light from many lamps, part one , p.g.no 1). Happiness shall have the prime importance in human life. People find many ways to be happy by spending more time in their areas of interest. However, in today’s busy world, do people get enough time for their own happy hours? Moreover are they successive to spread the happiness in their family and the society? Instead of finding spare time to do congenial work to be happy, people need to do what they love. Such people are more satisfied in their life because they love what they do wholeheartedly. But this satisfaction is limited to their professional area, and in fact even not extended to the personal life. From the book, Light from many lamps by Watson, he quotes a sentence written by Marcus Aurelius in his immortal Meditations, “Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself , in your way of thinking.”
Competitive mindset, comparative life, over ambitious about future are found increasing these days and these are the stones and thorns in the way of life towards happiness. It’s the fact that money is required to live the life, however it gives the feeling that people live to make the money, then where is the happiness. First of all instead of waiting for happiness, remember that the happiness is in one’s heart, he/she is responsible and it should start spreading towards the family and thereby the society. No one decides a man’s happiness, till he /she decides to be happy. Being a social animal, it’s one of our duty to have strong and healthy social relationship.
We are the leader of our life and it is more important to be happy to lead our life to be successful. Everyone needs to face the ups and downs in life. Therefore it is important to have such a strong mindset to achieve the goal. Sometimes our life may go through the unexpected or unwanted routes but it should not affect our regular life. In my personal life, whatever problems I face while running my daily life to reach the destiny should not affect my professional career because it derates my leadership qualities and moreover I fail to deliver my duty 100% and it negatively affects the people while I take care being a Nurse. Therefore it is important to find happiness in our daily life and it’s required to develop the leadership quality to spread the happiness even if we are travelling through very difficult moments of our life.
References
Northouse, P. G. (2016). Leadership: theory and practice (Seventh ed.). Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
Happiness & The Enjoyment of Living. In L. E. Watson, Light from Many Lamps (pp.1-7). New York: Published by Simon & Schuster.