Unmistakably, the modern trend is for affluence, the material success in life that people long for being happy. The life is a combination of freedom of enjoyment and the craving to own expensive commodities. Many people treat it as guaranteed happiness. Does it really mean so?

If money could buy everything including the happiness, the richest man on the earth should have been the happiest person living on this planet. If you examine his private wounds and intrinsic turmoil that he faces every day when he is alone, you would never accept his condition as the leading happiest man on earth. You can sum up with the explanation that financial affluence can make the life comfortable to the highest level and the individual enjoys the best possible physical enjoyment in the world. Happiness is more than the extreme comfort feeling and being wealthiest.

An individual needs caring and sharing. This has very little relation to financial ability of the person. The affection of a mother from the richest family is the same as the affectionate attitude of a farmer woman. Can you deny that? The love, the integrity the kind attitude of the poorest of the poor is unquestionable. After all, each individual hankers for the loving hand in the same way without any distinction of caste, race, quality and economics.

The present scenario has made the individual ill-learned about delicacies of warm feeling for one another. People are going far away from the noble way of caring and sharing of lovable moments. The lesson of materialism has eaten up the soft tissues of the heart and we suffer in unrelenting agony and continue to burn our feelings by just suppressing the human emotion of touching one another with love.

We can still turn the tide in our favor and enjoy the sweetness of happiness in life, if we really care and share the life with our neighbors, the society and with the entire humanity of the planet.

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