The Happiness We All Look For

husband and the wife talking to each other. This farmhouse which had earlier been the cradle of happiness, now looked more like a graveyard of depression. I have seen many such people in my life, some Muslims and some non-Muslims. They were people who had earned a lot of money by dint of hard work, but once having acquired wealth, they found that there was no happiness for them in mere material things. Some marry to please themselves but very soon realize that marriage is a thankless responsibility, far from being a life of happiness. Some dedicate their whole lives to politics, so that they may reach the seat of high political power. But after achieving this political power, they find that happiness had already deserted them. A certain individual’s target was a grand and spacious house, but by the time the house was ready, his face had started wearing a desolate look. The most unfortunate aspect of the present world is that, human beings so often have to face tragedy. Great writers have written thousands of novels in every language. These novels realistically represent human emotions, yet the strange thing is that a comedy in any language is seldom popular. All the really popular novels in the world have been tragedies. The reason is that every human being lives with the feeling that he has not been able to find the happiness that he desired. That is why tragic novels touch the human heart, while comic novels fail to do so. It is a very strange aspect of human life that the first half of it passes with every human being in pursuit of happiness,