Happiness

I was just wondering,
What is happiness?
Is it just the opposite of sadness?
Or just a state of mind.

Also read, that it is the sorrow and despair
which brings the best out of the chosen ones.
Why is it so?
Or is the the thing,
Which makes you to give your all
When thrown against a wall.

Why the creative minds flourish in pain?
Why pain brings best and the worst out of people?
Why despair makes people crazy?
Why is that the situation that makes one happy makes another sad?

Different reactions to different situation by different people.
This is question which is asked regularly,
But never answered .
This is question best left unanswered
To be asked again,
What is Happiness?
Is it just the opposite of sadness?
Or just a state of mind.

Vagaries of Life

I thought, how difficult it is to live life,
Then I saw people suffering trying to enjoy each and every moment of life.

I thought, how difficult it is to find love,
Then I saw a self less mother loving a new born.

I thought, how difficult it to mix with strangers,
Then I saw few poor kids playing merrily in
the mud.

Frustrated, I thought It's difficult to earn money,
Then I met a man rich because of inheritance.

For my every question there was an answer.
And every answer asked more questions.

Some where my heart said,
It's you to decide ,are you going to ask questions or find answers?

My mind replied,
These are the vagaries of life,
You ask questions and try finding answers.
You find answers,
and then they ask you questions.

Unmesh