The curse of ‘sense of ownership’!

We love happiness. Who doesn’t!!! Happiness involves ‘good’ character, ‘good’ health and ‘good’ wealth. Happiness can very conveniently be turned into sorrow as we humans tend to replace ‘good’ by ‘more’ – and we assume that wealth can buy everything…even character and health. So, we end up concentrating on ‘more wealth’.

As the parameters of happiness are not ‘fresh air and fresh food’, but just an iPhone(x) or may be an Audi(x). Not only just the brand names, but the value of ‘X’ defines our happiness. So temporary and so superficial!

It takes guts....courage to be happy! Are we courageous enough to be happy? Do we deserve happiness?

I feel that ‘that deep sense of ownership’ is the cure of unhappiness!

We require everything. We require every machine...right from a hair comb to a car.

And then in order to loosen up...we opt for farmhouses on weekends so that we can be away from the ever increasing chaotic hustle bustle of city life. But then, we are only responsible for this ‘hustle bustle’ around us. Once the cities we are living in were also the much desirable spots for farm houses. We are turning every place...every corner on earth in a piece of pollution emitting powerhouse.

Just for one single day, let’s try to consciously spend a machines-less day....shunning away our mobiles, refrigerators, microwaves, televisions, laptops, elevators, cars, and the list is endless. Surely, the experience will be farmhousish...infact much more than that!

All these machines are just making our lives fast. This fastness is gradually turning us into dumb robots from beautiful human beings. And we think that these machines are for our comfort. The catch is here...we experience ‘instant comfort’. The term ‘instant’ is in itself unnatural. Nothing can be instant. Everything has to and should take its time to shape up. The very human intervention is trying to instantanize everything. And we call it ‘perfection’. According to my understanding, it is ‘degradation’. Time is not far when there will be stuffs available in the market for ‘instant orgasm’, ‘instant human formation’...and the terms like ‘foreplay’ ... ‘pregnancy’...will be obsolete.

Everyone wants instantinity...everyone wants to be updated...everyone wants the latest stuff.

Only very few take time and question!!! Does your latest gadget really make you happy...if yes...it is only because you want ‘others to see it’ in your possession. And that sense of ownership of the latest gadget makes you happy. Isn’t it funny and senseless?

Happiness should be...when you have stories to narrate to your friends from your last trip...happiness should be when you know you are going to spend the coming week with your best friend...happiness should be when you realize that you have healthfully spent your last week...happiness should be when you cook delicious food for people around..happiness should be in being slow to the core...in understanding the regular process of life and thereby connecting with it.  

We amass things, thinking that we are doing it for achieving that ‘sense of security’…but in actual… ‘sense of security’ leads to ‘sense of insecurity’. But then, moneyless living is the need of the hour.

Let’s live consciously…minimally. Let’s stay connected to our core…to our very purpose of existence.

Less is more.