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Can Money Buy Happiness?- All About Happiness

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You must have come across the saying that “Money can’t buy happiness”. Really? Is it so? Don’t you wait for the first week of the month to get your salary or stipend? Aren’t you the happiest when your account gets credited with the income of your hard work? Money according to me is directly proportional to happiness. But then why do some people say money can’t buy happiness? Before getting started with this. Let’s just understand more about our happiness. Do read this blog till the end because I will be sharing a secret of being happy all time. Money photo created by drobotdean - www.freepik.com Have you ever heard about the “Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility”? You must have if you had economics as your subject. According to this law, As a consumer consumes more and more units of a commodity at succession, the marginal utility derived from the consumption of each additional unit of the commodity falls, Well in simple words let's say you are very thirsty or dehydrated, your desir...

Make sure you are getting married for the right reasons!

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Image Attribute: <a href='https://www.freepik.com/photos/wedding'>Wedding photo created by freepic.diller - www.freepik.com</a> Before we begin let me make it clear that this blog is not about whether or not one should get married. It contains some insights on the ideal reasons to get married from the experiences of those who are planning to get married in the near future and from the married couples. The objective being, to break the traditional beliefs and enhance thoughts on Indian marriage culture. It is important to clarify your reasons for getting married as wrong reasons can turn your fantasy world’s happily ever after marriage life into a toxic relationship. Starting with some traditional reasons because it's high time to say a big NO to them. The following situations don’t justify the reasons for anyone to get married. You are in you in your late 20’s ( or whatever age you are in, it doesn’t matter) Societal Pressure Parents are consistently forcing you...

Learn to Embrace the Randomness of Life!

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                                                                                                 Image Source: scoopwhoop.com  Embracing Randomness… Wondering what embracing randomness means? Explaining it quite literally, we can interpret this as Accepting The Unplanned. Not all our plans get successful, right? Especially the Goa plan with friends. Still, I am sure every one of you will agree that the unplanned trips are much better than the planned ones. But not everything is that easy to accept, just as some of those questions that we find out to be “out of syllabus”. There are things that we don’t actually plan but we know for sure that, “these are the things that I want or don’t want in my life”. For example, You never really plan or de...

SHOONYA- A Festival of Nothingness

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  As a human race, we have always speculated about things that accomplish something and has got some meaning. But have you ever pondered about the word "nothingness"? Each and every one of us is in a race to complete something and this leads to a lifestyle encircled by havoc. Maybe, it's time for us to forget everything and do nothing for a while! And coming to nothingness, how can we forget one of the greatest festivals in India - Shoonya. Shoonya is a 3-day carnival which occurs every year in Jibhi during the month of June. Jibhi is a small place located in the Tirthan valley near Manali. It takes around 12 hours of drive from New Delhi. It is one of such places where you can literally just sit and do nothing till the end of time. Coming back to Shoonya, it is shrouded around the theme " nothingness". Now, the question is how do you define nothingness? A general survey showed that most of the people who visit this festival are not fascinated by the idea of Sho...

How to feel alive all the time?

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“ Kabhi Kabhi toh lage Zindagi me rahi na khushi aur na maza   Kabhi Kabhi toh lage har din mushkil aur har pal ek saza   Aise me koi kaise muskuraaye, kaise has de khush hoke   Aur kaise koi sochle everything Gonna Be Okay...” { A song by Rashid Ali; Movie: Jane Tu Ya Jane Na } Imagine, it’s night you are lying on your bed thinking of your entire day with a smile and eagerly waiting for the next day to come. How often do you experience such moments in your life? There comes a time in our lives when we kind of start losing all our will to do things. A point where we are confused about what to do or from where we should start. Absolutely nothing or no one is enough to cheer us up and we tend to lose interest in everything around us. In other words, we just don’t feel alive anymore. And honestly, not every point in time we will have someone like Jay to cheer us up as he did to Aditi   (In the film JANE TU YA JAN...