Are You Still Chasing Happiness?
Are you still running after happiness?
One late night, Pinky read a research that piano players were happier by up to 30 percent than the rest of the people.
The next evening on her way from office, she bought a 64-note electronic piano at a sensible price. At home, as she began playing, she discovered it was a difficult instrument to learn. But she loved herself for buying it — it would increase her happiness.
A month passed. She worried she still couldn’t get the right notes a minute into a song. And her fingers and wrists ached all the time. But she persisted, calling her inner grit to action. She kept tapping those 61 keys for two hours a day until the calendar turned a year.
On that morning, as she looked into the mirror with a toothbrush in her mouth, her face grimaced. She had a grating realization: she wasn’t any more happy than when she started out.
Though her playing was better, it was still a chore. She could play around four songs full without missing a note. But she wasn’t happier — neither with her playing, nor with her life.
