if I was a little Ignorant

If I was a bit ignorant life would have been much simpler. This thought struck me when I visited a barber shop in Kanpur. The barber of the shop seemed to me a much happier man than I was. I had all the reasons in the world to be happier than him. I was professionally more sound than he was, my future was made secure by the college in which I was studying in, and many uncountable things of this kind. But what I and many like me fail to get in life is the genuine smile that truly indicates the happiness of ones inner self. Three years have passed since this incident happened, I have had innumerable incidents in which I have found people that have been happier than what I have been.

This has made me inquisitive about the true definition of happiness and many related questions. The one that I ask myself frequently is that whether I am on a wild goose chase that was suppose to lead me to eternal peace and happiness, but has failed to do so? I often ask myself what can I learn from that barber I saw, or for that matter a person who lives his life in his own sphere and doe not know, what getting a high paid job means, or what being successful means, or who does not want to go abroad and stay where he has born....

After contemplating a lot on these issues ..:-) I finally found the solution to this dilemma. The solution was very simple but not that obvious, it just required me to stop expecting a lot from life, it wanted me to be a bit patient and wait for life to give me whatever I deserve....believe it or not this feeling or waiting for the right things to come my way, already makes me feel much lighter...