Happiness is not a goal

By: Mochamad Ismail
Love can be a power which strongest than everything in the world. Love to family, to friend, to people, to country, to nation, to nature, etc. And above all love to God is a greatest power of human being in life. Love to god is a mother of loves.
Love to family I think is a second layer after loving to god. And it is what I’m talking about.

Love to family can be a big engine to motivate us to work hard, to do everything we can to achieve success. And a success of course is having much money. By money we can fulfill family’s need , wife’s need, children’s need. And the main thing is a happiness. Is it everybody’s goal?
For me happiness is not coming money from how much we have. Money is just a tool, just a vehicle to achieve a goal. Happiness is not the goal. So, what the goals?
Have you ever thought what we do when we have no money? What about our wife, our children? Do you think they can not be happy because of no money? Maybe my answer is how could they are happy with no money. Is it possible in living today we can be happy with no money?

The answer is possible! Very possible!
Happiness is not a goal in life. Happiness is only the effect of our heart, the effect of our mind. Sometimes when somebody wants a happiness what he get is not a happiness but the opposite. I don’t want a happiness as my wish. Is it peculiar?
No, I think it’s not peculiar. It’s precisely a plausibility.
Our duty in life is just doing good things. We work for earning a living to fulfill our duty as a family leader. Give something good or money to poor people, to a fatherless foundation, to mosque, to neighborhood. Doing something like a volunteer work in our neighborhood area.

What we get by doing this? The absolutely answer is Happiness. Besides happiness also a satisfaction that we already do something valuable in life. It’s happy things, right?
Do you agree with this?...

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