How happy are you with your current life?
How happy are you with your current relationship with family?
How happy are you with your current relationship with your other half?
How happy are you with your current relationship with your friends?
How happy are you with your job or career?
How happy are you with your current health status?
How happy are you with your current financial status?
How happy are you with your current freedom?
How happy are you with the happenings around you?
And the list goes on and on…
When we are under stress or unhappy situation(s), we often heard people advising us to let it go and get on with life. Yes, when we can’t change the way we are currently in, we can still change the way we perceive it. However, will it solve the problem at its root? What if the root problem lies beyond us? What if you have tried your best to make the situation better or accepting others’ principles yet what you receive in return is incorporation from others or the environment?
“When a person performs within that role, believing it to be his or her ambition, and a sign of professional success, how much room is left for spiritual longings? How much space have we left outside our roles, for us to truly know our heart?" ~ Confucius From The Heart
Few weeks ago, I came across an article on Gross Happiness Index (which I never knew its existence) and was enlightened with its existence as the environment I am living in focuses more on resolving the “symptoms” than the “root”.
Gross National Happiness (GNH) was initiated by the fourth king of Bhutan, King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, in 1972 to build an economy that is based on the unique culture of Bhutan, the Buddhist spiritual values, measuring the sense of being well-governed, their relationship with the environment, satisfaction with the pace of economic development, and a sense of cultural and national belonging of its people. The index will help to reveal the life quality, the amount of leisure time one has, the happenings in the community and the level of integration with ones’ culture. Let's us not think in a bigger environment first as it all begins within ourselves - our inner desire, our soul, our spirituality. Are those being met at an individual level?
“As citizens of a spiritual land, you treasure the qualities of a good human being – honesty, kindness, charity, integrity, unity, respect for our culture and traditions, love for our country and for God…My deepest concern is that as the world changes, we may lose these fundamental values on which rest our character as a nation and people.” ~Read more on Coronation Address of His Majesty King Khesar, The 5th Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan (7th November 2008) here.
Are you able to hold on to these fundamental values when you embark on your journey of life? How often does it succeed? How often are you denied the access to the values in chase of material world, even being denied by your inner self?
When we understand each other (even within a small team in an environment) and ourselves better, it will indirectly reap the maximum benefits for everyone. However, this understanding needs to be accompanied by the freedom of expressing oneself.
Have you found your source of happiness?
*Love and Hope for better tomorrow*
~Si3wLiNg~
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