Sunday, November 4, 2007

'Unhappy People'

Perhaps we should know who are unhappy among us. This is important not to judge anyone but to ensure that we are not one of them.
1. Childrens ignored by their parents. Many childrens constitute among the most unhappy people because they depend so much on others to be happy. If parents are unable to allocate their quality time to be with their children, no enough attention and care given to them, they will grow with anger and hatred. They will become individuals without affection and love towards others. Every child needs attention, love and education from their parents. They initially look at their parents as role models. If parents cannot educate their childrens and inculcate noble values, they will find friends, TV as their educators. This will necessarily result in confusion, immorality and miserable life.
2. Parents ignored by their childrens. As we know, we will reap the fruit of the plant we seed. If parents ignored their children the children will in turn ignore their parents. Many parents think that by providing wealth their children will be happy. Materialistic parents would rather spent most of their life working and accumulate more wealth assuming that the more money they acquire the happier they will be. Of course, temporarily, they will enjoy with fancy cars and warm vacations but then without inner satisfaction from every single member of the family the wealth does not mean anything. Later, with regret, the parents will realize that they have brought up ungrateful, mean and immoral persons.
3. Criminals. This includes thiefs, murderer, liar and all kinds of crimes. They chose to be criminals because they think they can have what others have in an easy way. The think that they have failed to reach their goal and become ordinary persons. Since they still have the desire to be rich, have pleasure and alike, they decided to take the risks and become criminals. It is evident that it is materialism in its ugliest form that causes this social ill.
4. Some distinguished people. Those entrusted as rulers, community leaders and high ranking officials who abuse their power and committed injustice will end up in misery. These corrupt leaders will bear the result of their wrongdoings in this world and hereafter. History proves that many of these corrupt leaders, such as Marcos, Fujimori, Suharto, Estrada face their punishment at the end of their life.
5.Those who live for lower cause. The bulk majority of people today live their life for the sake wealth and pleasure. Human beings actually have higher cause. It has something to do with God and His purpose of creation. This spiritual cause is necessary if a man really seek perfection. Man is not in any way an animal. Reason and soul are the distinctive nature of human being. Once we dedicated our life for the cause of fulfilling our whims we actually chose to live like animals. Animals don't care about values, about knowledge, about peace and tranquility. These are the functions of the soul. Our happiness depend so much on attaining good values, deep knowledge and inner tranquility. Those who chose the materialistic way of life are not happy, although sometimes they seems happy. Even if they have all that they want, but deep inside they feel something is missing. They need to keep themselves entertained through music, disco, bars otherwise they will feel bored. If they really happy they don't need them.

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