Far beyond a head, years ago, in a small town in the India ancient, a young man was sitting and mused near a garden, his face filled with unhappiness, so much annoyance, and his mouth spoke out desperate words.
Not far from that young man, an old man was approaching him, saw the young man face that ignore his existence, the old man asked him :
“what do you thinking of young man, why I see you face fill with annoyance?”
“where I should find happiness, why I can not find it?” the young man replied without noticed that old man.
“Ouw…if you want to get happiness, caught a dragonfly that is flying at the garden beside you, and bring it to me, then I will give you an answer about happiness after that.” The old man challenged him.
With his lazy face and jaded steps, he followed the old man challenge, he went to the garden, and began to catch the dragonfly, but after many attempts, he got none of them. He began his efforts, hardly, running here and there, no direction, he hit the thatch who against him, breathless, he kept on catching didn’t care what was it in front of him, but still he got nothing.
The old man who saw him from ground-swel, directly approached, smiled and he said :
“You want to get happiness on that way?” running with no direction, hit anything in front of you, harmed the thatch and make the dragonflies get away from you?”
“Young man, looking for happiness is the same situation by catching the dragonflies, the more you want to get it, is the more he keep away from you, happiness can only fell by our heart” the old man explained.
The old man approached the garden and caught a dragonfly with no difficulties. “in order to get happiness, use our heart. With a pure heart, the happiness itself will come to us. As long as your heart fill with ambition to get happiness, truly, the happiness itself will get away from you, do you understand young man” the old man smiled again to the young man.
“Thank a lot, I understand”, the young man replied with a happy face.
~Happiness is not the target we should achieve, but the result of our benevolence. With the heartfelt and appreciate all the life process we have passed happily, surely happiness already in our hand. However, just like catching a dragonfly, the more we run with no direction, with ambition to get happiness, then the happiness itself will get away from us. Don’t just grumble, but esteem our time we have at this moment, because happiness will be belong to a person who appreciate the life~
