Loneliness Vs Happiness

Loneliness is an emotional state in which a person experiences a powerful feeling of emptiness and isolation. Loneliness is more than just the feeling of wanting company.
Loneliness is a feeling of being cut off,disconnected and alienated from other people.The lonely person may find it difficult or even impossible to have any form of meaningful human contact.Lonely people often experience a subjective sense of inner emptiness or hollowness,with feelings of separation or isolation from the world.

When God said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food;he also meant the hunger to be loved.God himself experienced this loneliness.He came amongst his own and his own received him not,and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him.The same hunger, the same loneliness,the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.Every human being in that case resembles God in his/her loneliness;and that is the hardest part, that's the real hunger......
Each person was to himself one alone.One oneness,a unit in a society,but always afraid,always alone.."If i should scream,if i should call for help,would anyone hear...would it even matter?" its the thinking of a lonely person..............



On the contrary, Happiness is an emotional or affective state that is characterized by feelings of enjoyment and satisfaction.As a state and a subject, it has been pursued and commented on extensively throughout world history.
This reflects the universal importance that humans place on happiness.States associated with happiness include well-being, delight, health, safety, contentment,
and love. Contrasting states include suffering,depression, grief, anxiety, and pain.
Happiness is often associated with the presence of favorable circumstances such as a supportive family life, a loving marriage,and economic stability.Unfavorable circumstances, such as abusive relationships,accidents, loss of employment, and conflicts,diminish the amount of happiness a person experiences.However, according to several ancient and modern thinkers, happiness is influenced by the attitude and perspective taken on such circumstances.

Happiness,as it seems to me,consists of two things:first, in being where you belong, and second -- and best -- in comfortably going through everyday life...
People spend a lifetime searching for happiness;looking for peace.They chase idle dreams,addictions, religions, even other people,hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them.The irony is the only place they ever needed to
search was within........When one door of happiness closes,another opens;but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us........

I don't know what our destiny will be,but one thing I do know: the only ones among us who will be really happy are those who have fought and found how to serve.......

Happiness cannot come from without.It must come from within.It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy;it is that which we think and feel and do,first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.............

Butterfly.....(Nice story)

One day while walking through the woods, a man found a cocoon. He decided to take the cocoon home to watch its transformation into a beautiful butterfly. He gently placed it on his table and watched it for several days.
One day, a small opening appeared and the cocoon started to move.
The old man sat and watched it for several hours as it struggled and struggled to force its body from the cocoon.

Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and was unable to go any farther. Finally, the old man feeling sorry for the cocooned butterfly, decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then easily emerged.

But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.

Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening, were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings, so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would only cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.

And we could never fly.

Hope Our Friendship Lasts Forever.........

Our friendship has developed
In a way that is unique.
To think we crossed an ocean
Yet no words we had to speak.
Just a screen and keyboard
To get a message through
And from the whole wide world,
I'm so glad that I met you.

We've shared so many secrets
Carried each others loads,
You are always there to turn to
When I travel a bumpy road.

Sometimes when I'm feeling blue
It's as if you link to my mind
For going into my mail box
An e-mail from you I'll find.

Sometimes a card of friendship
Maybe a joke or two,
Whatever arrived is special
Because it was sent by you.

So though we're an ocean apart
Our hearts are together as one,
And hope our friendship lasts
Through all the years to come. . .