The Pursuit Of Happyness!

 

The Pursuit Of Happyness! Well I'm not completely talking about the 2006-Gabriele Muccino film starring Will Smith; even though it was a master piece and hands down one of my favorite film of all time! Let's talk a little about happiness-and the pursuit of it; 

What is happiness?

As cliché as it may seem, I actually gave it a strong thought of what exactly is happiness? Well, it's all relative and subjective to a lot of things but I'll be sharing what it is, to me...

There is a very wholesome article in the "Greater Good Magazine" by the UC Berkeley which has stated some mind-striking phrases that gave me a lot of inspiration to write about this particular topic in the very first place! To quote them, happiness is a "Subjective well-being"; just this phrase, so simply explains and shortens such a vast topic down so comfortably making so much sense! Ain't it?   

However, if only life would have been so simple(subjective again though!), seeing it scientifically, we feel joy in our bodies because of the release of dopamine and serotonin; two types of neurotransmitters in the brain, so if something you perceive as 'happy' happens, your brain receives the signal to release these chemicals into your central nervous systems!(ps; this is all the biology I knew!! ;p) 

Talking with personal experience; happiness can be as simple as having that perfect breeze hitting your face early in the morning, to as big as when you get a good rank in your entrance tests for which you've been giving in all your time and effort! It can be as simple as having the perfect taste of your coffee, to finally getting that dream job! The point that I'm trying to make is, that you should not only cease the time of experiencing the happiness but also store it in your memory! Live up to the sense of joy you had experienced while feeling happy! That in no terms mean that you only live in the nostalgia of older joy and not experience new ways of being happy! You should remember how happy that little/huge thing made you, you should picture that wide smile or whatever reaction you had because when you store such things in memory it helps in the time of hardships! 

Happiness to me is as simple as listening to a great composition of tunes or any Coldplay song! Finding new music that actually is my type!, listening to stories of prolly my parents' childhood or learn how to live and love from my grandparents! It is as cool as spending time with my friends, talking to them about past/future, exchanging learnings and mistakes and laughing with them! Happiness to me is something that feels like when your cousin from the US comes back in town and you get a random call from him asking you to get down and go for a small spin in his car in the middle of the night! I see my friends being happy and the reasons can be as simple as finally when a new episode of a web show or just Rick and Morty arrives! I see them being happy for finally getting to see that supercar he'd always thought about! I see them being happy when he gets to eat his favorite famous Hyderabadi paradise biryani! I see them being happy when she could actually go to that long-planned trek with her bestfriend! I see them being happy when she could finally read that book she had been waiting for since a year! 

Life is a box of chocolates! and you choose which ones you wanna eat! Happiness is not something that happens, it's something we find, and keep it for the rest of our lives!