Monday 2 March 2015

Priceless...

Frustration. One of the most uttered, quoted, pondered and postulated human conundrums. One of the fundamental symptoms of depression and melancholia. Neuro psychiatrists have identified some of the integral causes like anxiety, extremely low levels of self-esteem, self-belief and confidence, failure in social and economic arenas of lie as some of  the conditions that trigger frustration. We have sky high expectations from life. Striving to that reach the acme, the pinnacle of success, unsettling fears grip us from behind, holding us back. We fret over every meager or mighty loss, and at the end all we're left with is a saturnine mood and buckets of regret. Frustration takes us nowhere ultimately. It plays with our mind and snatches away the stolen moments of happiness. All our lives we expect the road to be straight and unwinding, like a smooth silken ribbon. As asinine as we are, we consider this world as ''a wish granting factory and an Eden of Abundance. Such utopian, fairy tale like expectations is what leads us to the darkest pits of disappointment. A heart filled with love and fetish for anything and everything materialistic, will ineluctably languish in misery. You own a sedan, but your heart craves for a luxury SUV.  You own an apartment, but you would rather live in a  palatial mansion. You earn a five digit figure salary? You wish to add another zero to it. Human wants, are never ending. And ever changing. One of the basic concepts of economics actually stems from this facet human nature. Since we demand too much, we own too less. Our resources are scarce, and there is a dearth of all goods and services.
Moving away from the economical point of view, an intrinsic human nature is that of dissatisfaction, discontent and displeasure. We look for more and better ways to satisfy our infinite wants,and seek the unseen, chase the undiscovered. Our avarice goads us to run faster, work harder and think quicker. After all, time is money. And money is everything.
Your surplus bank balance can buy you one of those 'sensor-attached' beds..
But can it buy you sleep?
Your wallet stashed with thousand dollar bills, can buy you those plush upholstered couches and divans..
but can it buy you comfort and relief after a hectic day at work?..
Your villa can have luxurious, posh interiors and rooms the size of football fields..
But can it give you the joy of  kinship and familial bonds?
.There are some things money cannot buy.
Happiness is one of them...

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