Definition Of Happiness

Defining Happiness

P K Routray

A tooth ache,

love for life it wrecks.

Pain on a nail

makes a life hell.

To poor or rich, sinner or saint

pain can prick at any point.

It may be external or internal,

physical or emotional

giving discomfort to heart and brain

to mitigate it, our self we condition and train.

The intensity of pain varies as per the conditioning

Differ as per  the perceptions the human feelings.

Points exposed to ravages of pain are limitless

contrary we feel limited are the sources of happiness.

Hence we commonly conclude

with such pains around to a man happiness may always elude.

But can happiness be not interpreted as avoidance of pain

that inflicts wounds on a person’s heart and brain?

Hence happiness as absence of pain may be its real definition.

If tooth does not ache, nail does not pain one must feel the elation.

Around us we see such pains staring at us in its limitless size.

but avoid we most and the avoidance is happiness that we prize,

Happy always we must be and grateful to the Almighty

as we are not suffering though the sufferings are infinity.