Happiness; balance between your thoughts, words, and actions
Hindu religious leader and social reformer Mohandas K. Gandhi said something like this, "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." I think this quotations gives us good suggestion of a way to perceive what happiness is.
What is happiness? Happiness is the feeling of being happy, and this is the thing that everybody seeks throughout their lives. Some may seek happiness in a wrong way, obsessed with money, work or something material, and they seem not happy at all. However, I think those people are also pursuing happiness, but the problem is that they don't realize that they are heading for the wrong way. They became obsessed to materials because materials make them feel better, but it would last for a moment. We sacrifice our happiness to achieve happiness and we tend to focus more on the result, but why not seek happiness in the process too?
I think this quotation shows us a way to seek happier life, and it also gives us the standard to examine if we are closer to happiness or not, which is making us think about balancing what we think, say, and do. For example, when you want to eat the cholate cake in front of you, but you can't because you're on a diet. In this case, you wouldn't be happy. However, if you want the cake and you eat the cake then you will feel happy. In other cases, it would be same, if your thoughts, words, and actions contradicts each other it would be hard for you to have happiness. I think this quote is good because it reminds us of this.
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