No matter, what you do in your life, there is always a reason to whine about. This is a human tendency. I have realized it with my own life, with others as well that howsoever successful you might be with money, luck and position humans always try to find out what they still don’t have and are upset about it. It started with the the most trivial like the pencil that had an eraser in its back (a scented one), a pen-pencil, the next GI-JOE in line, an electronic watch and so on. It was always like, that someone had it and that you don’t have it and that’s the reason why you need to have it. It is like a vicious circle, which goes on and on and on but with different things that you wish to have, sometimes a pencil, a toy, a computer, a glare, a newly styled jeans or a haircut that you always wanted to sport. It seemed as if things are not at all in place and are not at all beautiful and that if you buy it (the thing you want) things will become the way, you want it to be, happy as ever. However, once it is yours, the marginal utility of that product somehow according to its very law starts to diminish and two months down the line it is a forgotten thing which has its place in some dust-din or some remote place where you don’t even want to peep into.
As long as it remained with worldly things, it was perfectly fine but when this habit started creeping into your relationships, it’s a deadly affair. Just imagine a guy totally mad about a certain girl, the world seemed glum without her and he thought he would sacrifice anything and everything for her. Things went the way he wanted, he proposed and things fell in line that is to say that they were connected and they started dating. One year went by, the second as well and the guy started realizing that he has got his heart for yet another girl whom he saw a few days back in his tuition classes and that he cannot get her out of his head. He also understood that the last one was over and he needs to start something afresh. Cause he has lost all interest in his girlfriend and now he needs someone else. Ain’t it deadly. A bad habit that started with pencils, moved on to real time people, and destroyed a few lives. Here, the reverse is also true. Imagine a freshly graduated MBA from a renowned institute who has ample opportunities lying in front of him, a couple of calls from good organizations providing good package and post. He started with the best one he could have imagined and in roughly about six months or so, started finding his job monotonous and boring. Thus, he switched to the next best one. It took him 2 years of vigorous switching to realize the no jobs will ever give him what he wanted. I personally never understood what a good package is. A person will go on to earn something like Cristiano Ronaldo does and even then try for a raise. That’s how WE are. No matter if you have a Bugatti Veyron in your garage and you wear Gucci or you sip on to Cognac everyday you will be any happier. Cause happiness doesn’t come from owning a few worldly things. The person lying by the roadside might be happier than you are and that’s the beauty about happiness. We crave more and more to make ourselves happy and get trapped in a habit which destroys the very way of healthy living. We get enamored to different things in life one after the other and hanker for it only to find out that it is not the very thing we want in life.
This is how we keep swinging from one rope to another like trapeze artists in front of an audience called Life. And when its all over we realize that we have lived almost the whole of our lives doing nothing but running after some useless things which never mattered to us. And that we have missed on a whole lot of things which we should have enjoyed and cherished a bit more longer.
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