When i was a kid just having a plastic ball was enough to make me happy. Now, to achieve the same level of happiness i guess i will require a number of intangible and tangible things which do not include that plastic ball.
As we grow old we widen our horizons . We start demanding and needing more . As taught in marketing ,we discover ( or made to ) our hidden needs. There is an old saying about the frog inside the well. He knows just about the well and has no idea about the outside world. This is , as taught to us , a bad thing . But can't we compare this frog to the kids who know nothing but are happier than the supremely knowledgeable human beings treading this planet.
I guess we start taking life and ourselves too seriously . We become the victim of our own needs. Needs which are supposed to bring happiness. Which in the short run do bring happiness but evaporate soon enough. Thus one is bound to slog hard throughout his/her life for that blissful state of mind. In the process we become responsible not only for ourselves but also for others. Then begins the cycle of compromises and subduing of aspirations.
But people will argue this is how life is. Hard , cruel and complicated.
November 22, 2009 at 3:21 PM
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November 22, 2009 at 10:50 PM
dost.... kya baat kahi tumne..
November 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM
I don't really agree. Even the little kid would want a bigger/better/shinier plastic ball. It's just human nature to want more. There is a saying that when God was mixing the ingredients for making humans, he did not pour from the jar labelled contentment. If we were content with what we had, we wouldn't have come this far.
I feel better. Needed to write something down! :)
December 7, 2009 at 11:00 PM
I am pretty much in accord to your word Stamper, and there's one more thing, when we grow up we kill the child within us all the time,
and become a hungry monster who has a list of so many needs which no Walmart in this world would be able to satisfy, and no pocket of any millionaire can ever buy .......
December 9, 2009 at 12:59 AM
maslow hierarchy dude...