What is happiness? Is it something packed in a box that you can find in a supermarket? Is it something as mysterious as a black hole? Or is It something that you can’t see but can feel?

Well, happiness is a feeling- an emotion that brings joy to your life and peace to your mind and soul. But what makes us happy? Or how can we find happiness? Can we buy it? Does it have a formula like Math? To be very specific happiness is a state of mind. We are all different. We do have different wishes and goals. Everyone has a different idea of happiness. For example, you will get different answers if you ask a child, a student, and a businessman what makes them happy or when do they feel the happiest? The child may say it’s when his father brings his favorite candies, the student may feel happy when he aces in exams, and the businessman may feel happy when he signs for a new project. But as I mentioned above “Happiness” is a state of mind. It is inside you. Happiness can be found in simple things. For example, when one can wake up hearing the tweeting of morning birds, a late-night drizzle when one is sleeping peacefully, or the aroma of freshly brewed coffee.

There has always been a debate about whether money can buy happiness or not. Well, I believe we need money to lead a stable life but we don’t have to be very rich to be happy. Happiness is a kind of pleasure. It’s when you have food on your plate and when you can have dinner with your family. It’s when you have a fit and healthy body. It’s when you can have a sound sleep and when you have people around you who support you during your tough times. There are thousands of people who have plenty of money but are suffering from loneliness. There are large numbers of people who can buy expensive foods but are lying in hospital beds and eating those bland foods.

At last, I just want to say that finding happiness is not like a competition. You need to create it by yourself. We work day and night, we do so many things but in the end, our motive is the same. We all want to be happy. When you will start enjoying the little things in life, you will realize happiness was not far away.