When Will You Be Happy? Poem by Amrit Rathi
When Will You Be Happy?
“Why do you work so hard? ”
I asked the young folks,
“What’s the reason? ”
“Cause I want to be happy, ”
replied one.
“When will you be happy? ”
I inquired further.
“A million dollars in my account,
that’s what’s I need, my friend, ”
he shot back
with a glimmer in his eyes.
I asked another guy
the same question.
“I want to be number one
in my profession, ”
he too replied
with a smile so wide.
I asked many more
but the reply that came,
was always in the same vein:
money, success, and achievement
were all that they could say.
I wondered why none of them
talked about love, children, relationships,
marriage, community, or friends!
But how does your soul feel
when you have an overflowing bank account,
or a résumé, perfect and real?
As a matter of fact,
from mother’s breast to a big house or car,
we grasp to be secure-it’s an unhealed scar.
Just under an illusion of security,
we keep on craving more and more,
unsatisfied like the movement
of waves rising and falling,
until finally exhausted, spent.
As a matter of fact,
real security comes only when
you are in relationships that ring
bells of real love and understanding.
So find someone you love and feel
love in every pore of your body.
Tomorrow, love that person with even more zeal,
and the next day, love one additional person,
and every day increase the number of people you love.
And you will have heaven here, not above,
full of happiness for you and others.
The sun of true success shining bright,
you shall have whatever life can gather:
the fragrance of happiness always alive.
Doctor Gottlieb, my friend, is the person
who gave me this wonderful prescription.
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monetary things come and go, but a true friend, a loved one, a family member those are the things that we will remember in our last minutes in this world.
Slowly you are be´coming a priestess with ur ideas. thank you. Real security comes only when You are in relationships that ring, Bells of real love and understanding. it is very true. we are all false in our ideas of security and permanent happiness
A huge poem written with great authority about the genuine way to find happiness. A very thorough write and pleasant to read. Good work. Lynn
ur wisdom and talent amaze me. and one more thing that i highly appreciate in ppl, the ability to say 'i was given, i was told or i was shared'... for some ppl when take sth from others give it as their own... thank u for ur page here
Once again you have surprised me with ur lovely imagination...u made me rethink some things in life I've forgotten about..great poem
So true....... I think who all read this one will surely think of love, care, family and friends....... Very wonderful and great pleasure to read.
Thanks for sharing this poem packed with the facts that love for family, friends and all humanity is more sustaining than material things. A good write
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/19/2024 6:11:12 AM # 1.0.0.1119
‘Money, success and achievement… no one of them/Talked about love, children, relationships, /Marriage, community or friends…’ We’re product of hedonistic and narcissistic society where we confine in ‘my’, ‘I’, ‘mine’ …we’ve unforcedly shrunken our radius of expansion… Great Swami Vivekananda said, ’Expansion is life contraction is death’…we’ve trapped in ‘bobby trap’…and find joy to die in explosion latter or sooner… Thanks sir for such a thoughtful poetry 10/10 Ms. Nivedita UK