Happiness is right here

A Lower staff posted in my work place was cribbing all the time about how she doesn’t find the working atmosphere here conducive and how she wants to be transferred to some place better. Better place which she imagined would be a much happier one, which would make her life far interesting and good. Unfortunately More than often she herself was the cause of all the fights in our work place , she started the fire put more fuel in them, caused unnecessarily chaos and yet in the end would simply blame it on all the others and keep on saying what a useless place this was to work in and how she would approach higher authorities for transfer. She would everyday blame everyone for making her life difficult and giving her stress. I would tell her many times that this place is far better than many. Today she got transferred and she’s in tears, because it’s far more taxing and difficult than the existing circumstances. She doesn’t have an option any longer to stay here. She asked me to intervene with the higher authority and let her stay in this place only. Obviously now it’s not possible. She’s in a bad shape now. I wish to tell her that her ego got the better off her. But I choose to keep quiet. Instead I think deeply about this

Riccha Sarin
Nov 6 · 3 min read

We often as human beings have an inflated ego which makes us believe we are superior and thus we loose sense of reality. It is common human nature to be constantly dissatisfied and critical about whatever you have in your life, the things that you own, the relationships that you have. Almost everything that life gives you. You tend to feel disrespect Towards all the things available to you and then take them for granted. When you take someone or something for granted it automatically looses all its value. And then starts the vicious circle of disregard and ego which tells you that you are supreme and you deserve a better place than where you are currently in your life. This in turn starts the cycle of unhappiness and discontentment with everything which you possess. You start quarrels, you become bitter , you start misbehaving, your attitude becomes harsh and casual towards everyone and everything. The end result being that More than often eventually you loose out on everything. But by then it’s already too late and the damage is already done. The irony of life is that real value of most things is realised only after loosing them. We ignore and take for granted all our relationships, all our loved ones, all friends and family. We spend more time fighting over petty issues just to satisfy our egos. Later on when those people no longer exist in our life do we realise how important they were. But by then all that we are left with is memories and regret and however much we might want to undo the situation it’s impossible.

Start today , start valuing the people in your life, take out time for them, show them what they mean to you, how special and important they are make them a priority, do not disrespect or disregard the good which life is giving you at a certain time, do not keep on wishing for something else instead , of some other life which you haven’t seen. Enjoy , love and live each day with utmost gratitude and thank god for all the good he bestows upon you every single day of your life. Find happiness, and more importantly create happiness for all around you. Remind yourself that an inflated ego is the most detrimental thing not for anyone else but you yourself.

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