THE BEST GREETING WISH OF ALL TIMES
1st of January, New Year day. I wanted
to wish all my friends and family a happy new year. Just wishing “Happy New
Year” looked very simple and inelegant. I wanted to write something graceful, stylish
and poignant. A greeting full of gravitas and conveying sincerity.
I wrote the greeting differently,
qualifying my wish with “health and wealth”. I made it sound religious “may God
bless you”. I even personified the New Year and pleaded with it, “may the New
Year bring success …” Somehow none of them seemed to offer any greater wish
than just Happiness.
People say that they are sacrificing
their happiness for the family, for the religion, for the country or the world.
But are they, really? In fact doing that sacrifice makes them feel happy. They
would feel miserable if they did otherwise.
Some people feel happy to amass a lot of
wealth. Some find happiness in finding a soul mate. Some find happiness in
worshiping God and some find happiness in explaining to people that there is no
God. Many of these people will suffer trying to achieve their goals. They might
feel that they sacrificed their happiness for their causes but at that time
they would have felt a lot more wretched if they would not have tried.
Everything one wishes, or longs for
is to achieve just one simple goal: happiness. To be happy is for what every
living being is living for. There is no point to live otherwise.
What is the worth of anything,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?
RICHARD OWEN
CAMBRIDGE, Learning
To be happy is, I believe, the
ultimate wish one can wish for someone.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL.
