When Your Happiness Stands In The Way...

"Pursue your happiness, nothing matters more!"

This is the most soul lifting - and selfish - sentence that has spread across the cyber space. Even motivational speakers have adopted this meme. They tell you that nothing else matters except your happiness.

Well, being happy is a good thing. In fact, everyone owes themselves a duty to always live in this state. But pursuing happiness at all cost? Now, this is creepy. When you get to a stage in life where nothing matters to you; where you can do anything to satisfy yourself in order to be happy, then I can tell you that you are a time bomb waiting to explode! And there is a name for it - SELFISHNESS!

When you have to get a piece of Happiness at the expense of others, then happiness becomes a vice that should be fought and conquered.

Be happy. Stay away from people and things that will make you feel otherwise. Work towards it. You deserve it. But if you come to a stage where getting your happiness will hurt people severely, have a rethink. At this point what you call the pursuit of happiness might be tyranny.