Go B(u)y Happiness

Happiness! The last short story in my blog ended probably making us think on that. It should have made us re-examine the link between money and happiness - if at all it exists! Today and also in the days to come, I would have a volley of questions thrown up to you so that the thought process continues.

In classical science, we have saturated chemical solutions that contain a dissolved component at the verge of crystallization. You scratch with a glass rod on the inner wall of the beaker and lo! - a shower of lustrous specks seem to appear from nowhere in the thin fluid, precipitating into a brilliant base of sparkling crystals! In an informed and thinking society, thoughts crystallize into reality in the same manner whenever the situation calls for it. Each time social threats have challenged human existence, the collective intelligence of the society has met it with a spurt of creative actions to bring a radical transformation that was unheard of till then. But Rome was not built in a day. In order that we remain capable as a society to spring surprises in the face of challenges as they come, we need to be saturated with intensive thought and ideas to respond with unfailing precision and brilliance when the need arises - like the crystals in the beaker. But the preliminary slow process of saturation and concentration of thoughts takes place while we gradually free our minds of the unwanted social bindings and mental blocks that prevent change.