Happiness

by Ishara Mudugamuwa

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Hay girls and guys...I know all of you like to spend every hour, every minute and every second happily. Life is not simple as that to keep you happy all the time. You are in your most august age of your life. So your age is most important and fantastic to you.

Happiness can be gained in many ways. It can be gained in good ways as well as bad ways. As a youth this is the time that you will have to use your wisdom to select the best way to gain happiness that will be with you for a long time.

Care must be taken not to indulge in momentary pleasures thinking it gives you eternal happiness. I know you should enjoy your life but life is yours and nobody else. Happiness is essential for the continuation of life. Without happiness life cannot be fruitful.

If you don't have happiness you have to seek it in activities such as music, dancing, sports etc. Then you will feel completeness and happiness flowing to you.

Positive thinking will take you to accomplishment and happiness where as negative thinking would lead you to discontent and make you unhappy. This is the age where physical and mental changes occur constantly. If the changes that take place in you are channelled fruitfully they will bring you happiness eternally.

Presently there is a tendency to search happiness only in one medium such as internet and other electronic media. Versatility in genial activities during leisure hours would sure to produce sources for long time happiness.

All this age of life there is nothing that bring happiness like companionship. That can be had easily in sports and aesthetic activities.

I know in this age most of you are lovers. Love brings happiness and love is not a one way traffic. It has to be given to be regained by the self in the form of happiness mingled in love.

Sometimes you may feel that happiness is a thing that's difficult to gain and its beyond you. Happiness is not a single product but it is the sum total of everything of your life.

As a youth you have to face so many difficulties. But you have to face them without fear. Take life as a pond. If it is placid it is beautiful and even if it has ripples its beautiful too. So as ripples succumb to obstructions our thinking pattern must be able to succumb problems and go for happiness.