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A matter of choice ...

You have 2 options, and you have complete freedom to choose any of these.
Each option leads to an outcome which is one of those given below

1. You are happy and everyone believing that you are not and sympathising with you.
2. Everyone believing that you are happy, while in reality you are far being so.

Which one will you choose ?

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  1. Kushal Chowdhury1:45 AM, September 29, 2006

    2nd option. It'll at least spare me the unsavoury burden of being constantly sympathised with and bored by the inane philosophies of inane-r people.

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  2. Nikesh Rathi11:01 PM, September 29, 2006

    ... still you won't really be "happy"

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  3. Kushal Chowdhury9:29 AM, September 30, 2006

    Who wants to be? :)

    Happiness is such a relative word. In any given situation, one can be as as happy or as unhappy as one chooses to be. Take for example, our 1st term results. If I flunk 1 paper, I can be unhappy that I'd flunked or I can be happy that I didn't flunk only 1 or I'd have been thrown out!

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  4. Nikesh Rathi1:34 PM, September 30, 2006

    But in the given choices more than actually being happy, it is about how others percieve you to be.

    Take an example. If someone flunks (or say gets a grade drop), people might actually be symathatic, but actually the person may still be happy coz he doesn't care about grades, but cares only about learning.

    In second choice a person might just feign that he is doing well, but he may not actually be well off. This may just be to impress people.

    Guess, what a person ultimately bases his decision on it based upon the "expected payoff"!

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  5. Nikesh Rathi3:04 PM, October 03, 2006

    @ silencekilled

    thanks

    me too supporting option 1 :)

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  6. Anonymous12:50 AM, October 05, 2006

    well happiness is a state of mind.............nobody can find true happiness in this word unless and until he lets go of his ego complely and becomes nothin...........attain nothingness is like attain everthin..............only then can one be happy

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