Coefficient of Happiness

What do all Men/Women strive for ?
- The Answer probably will be "Happiness" across all generations and ages.

As someone pointed out - Happiness or unhappiness are just emotions and one of them is as important as the other one. I will disagree, if such that been the case then we will all have also strived for unhappiness. They are both emotions - true. But then again it is also very true we enjoy happiness irrespective of unhappiness. The only thing that can come to one's mind is that one can realise the imprtance and value of happiness once one gets unhappiness as well.

Now coming to the main context of this passage. I will try to find out what in life actually gets us happiness in the universal way.
Firstly, being happy has nothing to do with being rich or poor.
Having said so, it must also be recognised that money to a certain extent does make life simpler in some respects.
The other aspect most often cited by humans is "Love". It is said that love in one's life is the co-efficient of happiness. Now if we are to really understand it, it is very unfortunate that "Love" as such is something one gets not much due to their own doings. Firstly when one is a child, it is the love of the parents what matters. But then, parents are what we get without any doing of ours. there are many in this world who are deprived of that love and hence the attached happiness without any wrong or right doing on their part. Gradually people grow up and make friends and associations. Now for friends, inspite of one loving his/her friends dearly and honestly, it may just be the case the his/her friends may not love him/her or may just be using him/her for their own reasons. Again as one sees, effort, honesty or goodwill has very little to do anything with this and hence happiness. Now, one come to the aspect of Love for the opposite sex. There are numerous failed love stories and most of them do depict that it had little to do with the doings of the person involved. There is unrequited love, there is forsaken love, there is deceptive love and there is infidel love. There again, many a times it does not point back to the doings of the person who does love the other one honestly, unconditionally and fully. yet he suffers. Now if we take children, there has been many examples in which children leave their parents in their old age to feed for themselves. It is not that children have to take care of them but they should at least show their endless love as that is what the parents need so much. Parents are left to rot in old-age homes or they are required to shift between homes of their many children almost living a life of a vagabond. The parents have loved their children all their life and have given their love and care fully to their children, yet many a children behave in this fashion. Again, it potrays how it has very liitle context on the doings of the parents.
Now there is again a notion, that if you spread love you will get love back. That is what tried to say is not entirely accurate. Mother Teresa (the noble prize winner) is said to have loved many people, but was she loved back. I doubt, she was revered, respected but then how many did really love her as they would love someone extremely dear to her. One must not confuse love with respect and reverence or admiration.
So, end of the day, is it all about chance ? Is it all about FATE ?
The Co-efficient of happiness is not Love, Hate, Money or Effort or honesty, goodwill and many such good qualities. It is all about fate and chance and fortune. Isn't it so ???
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