Have you ever wondered how queer life can be? Just when you pinion all your hopes onto something to get the happiness that you seek, you are left empty-handed ;like the beggar groping in the dark for the solitary round piece of alloy that just slipped out of his fingers. What a pity! For the tantalizing prize that the beggar mourns, is nothing more than a metal pittance: an inanimate object , shrilling a hollow cry on being dropped , a common trait of all things empty . Yet it is a trophy aspired by the beggar . A trophy that the tramp awaits all day. He doesn't grapple for it like the other beggars. No , he weighs his gravity far too much to act so shamelessly. Yet , a trophy which he secretly admires. For him, it is THE trophy that will bring him happiness.
This is life making a mockery of us. A flatter to deceive. The whole scheme is to make us believe that happiness is an intangible, discarnate entity dangling from the mane's nest, and that, it could be obtained only by pelting the beggar's metal scraps at it.We are abetted into believing that gross objects shall bestow us with happiness. What a farce! How can the gross ever capture the subtle?
The futility fraught with the enterprise is the same as with trying to chain a shadow or cage a dream . Chasing after the palpable to attain the ethereal doesn't merit a prudent man. So doesn't idleness.
A prudent man understands that happiness can't be snatched or stolen: it has to be earned. One's endeavours should be directed towards trying to create wealth for the future. By wealth , one means objects that can give us the joy that we seek . It could be sowing the seed of a relationship that nourishes us with the love and warmth it brings to our life .Or it could be the effort to inculcate in ourselves the qualities that we admire in others: seeing the fountainhead of all virtues glistening in one's heart immerses one in profound solace.
The method matters far less than the motive: ultimate joy is in giving what one has, and not in ruing and snatching at what one doesn't.
