“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.” -Anna Pavlova It peeks at us from around the corner. Smiling invitingly. Singing the siren’s song to mesmerize us. And as we rush towards […]
Posts Tagged ‘happiness’
The Elusive Beast Called Happiness
Posted: 11th April 2015 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: beast, dance, declare, desert, elusive, happier, happiness, intention, jobs, love, luck, misunderstand, oasis, petrichor, positive, rainy, work
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The Little and Big Joys of Life
Posted: 5th December 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: big, charity, child, coffee, dog, dream, existential, failure, father, happiness, happy, her, hungry, journey, joy, kindness, life, little, lost, love, music, nephew, petrichor, purpose, random, realize, road, smile, stranger, wanderer
The smile from a random stranger in return to a genuine smile from you. Conversations with strangers in a language you don’t even understand but the kindness and warmth of that conversation beams a universal message of good will. Finding the one when you weren’t even looking. In the process finding the questions to your […]
Better Man
Posted: 7th May 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: ambitions, better, crossroads, dead, destructive, drinker, end, fairy, freedom, funeral, happiness, he, her, highs, his, job, lighthouse, lost, lows, man, marriage, nagged, prodded, road, self-loathing, she, smiling, smoker, spiral, truck
As he stood there smiling, he recalled what a mess he had been when he had met her. A chain smoker, a heavy drinker and locked in a self-destructive spiral of depression and self-loathing. She had seen all that and still become his friend. As a friend she had improved him, as a lover she […]
My Dad- A Eulogy
Posted: 21st April 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: adventures, best, bond, cloudiest, crazy, dad, dead, death, doubts, eulogy, friend, grandson, grief, guide, happiness, idea, integrity, lived, love, miss, mom, soul, sunshine, time, unconditional, whispers, you
More than 4 years have gone since I last heard your sage advice and received that unconditional love. Your voice is fading like faint whispers on the ether of time. Yet you live on through me and mom; through Aditya and your daughter in law; and through your grandson who you couldn’t see. What wonderful […]
What is Happiness ?
Posted: 21st March 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: albert camus, cesare, day, father, girl, happiness, hummingbird, international, moments, pavese, robert louis, stairs, stevenson, whimsy
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” – Albert Camus But isn’t the search for the meaning of it all- life, universe and everything- a close second to the contemplation of the ultimate question-What […]
Albert Camus-quotes and excerpts from his written works
Posted: 28th May 2011 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: albert, camus, Earth, evil, excerpts, freedom, happiness, history, human, idealist, ideology, imagination, justice, life, live, love, man, meaning, memories, quotes, reason, sea, stars, stupidity, suicide, war, world
Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us to die. I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now […]