Guaging human sentiments ...

(Self-reflection and thoughts are personified in this article. 
Reflection is speaking about what happiness is all about...)

I am experiencing and extraordinary happiness today, a bliss that is beyond expression and beyond my strength to ink it on paper. Yet, I gather courage today to write the same.

Till now I felt that my life was full of challenges and that I could overcome them with great difficulty. But today when I saw the ladies working in the garden with the aim to earn a living for their families, and not deterring from their work despite the scorching heat of the sun, I felt that I am being selfish by calling myself one who has faced challenges.

I guess I could understand myself this day, when I felt that I should learn not only from my mistakes but also from the challenges that people around me face. Despite odds, they still remain determined to work and achieve their goals. No matter how much situations try to stop them from achieving their ventures, they remain determined to carry them out and fulfill their motives.

It is now, when I experience eternal bliss beyond expression that not only makes me closer to the Creator but also closer to myself. Satisfaction with my work, thereby gaining strength to work in future despite all difficulties that come my way, are the little secrets of happiness. This pious feeling makes one closer to his own self. Such expressions are abstract, they can only be felt. Dictionary would be too small a repository to describe them...

I am the reflection of the sentiments of a human being who was created by God and is the after effect of many days of ultimate imagination of the Creator. I consider myself to be the ultimate happiness of mankind - that happiness which he would get only when he feels that he has contributed enough in his eyes in all walks of life. I am the one who can be found in the eyes of a flower picker, a poor farmer working in the fields despite the scorching heat of the sun or the freezing winters and in a woman who has been a good homemaker, spending her life in serving her family. I am satisfaction. 

I can be felt by those alone who feel eternal bliss and who are far away from the greed or even hunger for posts and money – for when people find me in their lives, they become closer to my sister – happiness. One does not have to remain austere to find both of us. Rather, service to mankind by serving the downtrodden helps a person to find us.

It is indeed bad to exaggerate the feelings of oneself and demonstrate, and those who tend to do such things become awfully infamous, if not at once, then after a prolonged period of time. So, by being able to understand their bent of mind and way of thinking and working, I would tend to be more to the point than beating about the bush to express my feelings in my writings.

The Machiavelli to which a man is subjected has become a daily affair for many such people who tend not to get affected by the impoverished conditions of their kinsmen, for these whom I am calling their kinsmen are not their relatives or born in the same family. They are rather their kinsmen, for they were born and are being borne by the same mother earth who is bearing each one of us with the same patience and tenderness that rather be felt than expressed.

It was rightly said by William Wordsworth, the great English poet that it is disheartening to see and realize what one human being has made of the other. In the words of Wordsworth:

“To her fair works did Nature link

The human soul that through me ran;

And much it grieved my heart to think

What Man has made of Man”

The poet’s emotions and melancholy have been effectively depicted in the lines that tell that somewhere in the depth of his heart, he feels that man has been inhumane to the boon that has been bestowed upon him by Nature. Also, to the fellow human beings who breathe the same air and lead the same life as his own self, he has not allowed life of dignity every time it has been asked for. Lament is not a part of life, but has emerged as a part of life because people have denied happiness to their own selves or their fellowmen in a continuous fashion, thereby having persuaded them to lament.

Lamenting and becoming mendacious has made man go far away from me in this world filled with people cherishing materialistic thoughts. This makes them far away from coming closer to me in the true sense.

I strongly believe that once there is satisfaction, there would be happiness and no lamenting. This would lead one to spend a better life if not the best. 

It is time to think and understand that the world should be made a better place to live in than be converted into a disaster, persuading God to think why he made men to live in this world as a part of his creations of Nature.....