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A case study on Happiness

Sompal de Unhappi--A brief history

Sompal was a salesman. He was planning to get married and  moved into
a new  apartment, comfortable enough for a new couple. planning to get married soon.

:Sompal  moves into a new level of happiness

Happiness is created by the generation of happy thoughts; and thoughts are generated by
the mind with or without the association of the other five senses: the eye, the ear, the
nose, the  mouth and the body. We do everything to gratify our desires and cravings which
are demanded by these sensory organs, often   defined as insatiable monsters.

Happy thoughts are the results of our association with happy assets. Sompal after his big
promotion in his office, decided to invest his new cash flows in the acquisition of new happy
assets, so that he could move into a new level of happiness.

Sompal likes to look at and live with beautiful flowers. So he bought a few roses to be kept
in his apartment.  When you see the flowers  like  beautiful roses,  you expect the rose to
create a happy thought in your mind, because you like  flowers. [gratification of the eye.]

As he enjoys listening to good music he  invested in a set of new equipment to listen to
good,music[ to gratify his ears]

Sompal also bought some ice cream and kept it in his  refrigerator because  ice-
cream is his favorite dessert.[pleasing his tongue]

He bought some exotic perfumes for his girl friend,  because she likes to use perfumes and
she will be happy using it. [gratifying the nose].

Sompal also purchased  an air conditioner because he  likes and  enjoys living in a cooler
environment [gratification of the body].

All these assets he acquired as a preliminary step in getting married.

Can these happy assets guarantee his happiness? For how long?

The happiness created by the ownership or the use of the above assets was short lived,
because  happy thoughts created by those objects could not be sustained for long periods
of time .Whatever the asset is, it is subject to the laws of non-permanence. Some
deteriorate faster, and some very slowly. When they disappear, your happy thoughts will
also be transformed in to  unhappy thoughts. That could make you unhappy.

Everything Changed unexpectedly.

Unfortunately,  for Sompal, the source of   electricity supply to his  apartment  area was
destroyed  by a  tsunami wave. As a result, the air-conditioner ceased to function and his
apartment was without electricity; the ice-cream started melting in the refrigerator. He had
no  information about his girl friend,  because of the disturbance to the communication
system. It becomes a major worry. He was even without music.

Tsunami Wave came in and his area was disturbed once again. A few months later, his
fiancé died of a bomb explosion in a restaurant.  while waiting for Sompal.
Sompal escaped death because he was late
. He decides to take a retreat at the Happyraj.
After his 10-day program he got a few more extensions. Later he was recruited to work in
the restaurant ship named The Happicraft, that ferried people to the Happyraj.

After two months work on the restaurant boat, he decided to leave because he could not
agree with the life styles that he was expected to promote at the Happicraft--the restaurant
boat.

He preferred to work in the Happyraj.

.Please visit the following pages for more information  and analysis before answering the
questions given below.

Required:
  • what are the options available to Sompal?
  • If you were Sompal, what would be your options? Will they be different? Why?

Note: The Editor wishes to receive your response to this case study. The second stud;y is
also by the same author. It will be published soon as a novel .AGNI REGAINS HER
HAPPINESS.

Please post your views and comments to the editor:
nihal@happicraft.com
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