Happiness is imagination

It is our need to be happy, to have a healthy life but more than that it is the necessity to remain at peace with everything. Taking the analogy from Zeroth law of thermodynamics, which states that when two bodies are in equilibrium, third body in contact if in equilibrium with first body than it has to be in equilibrium with the second body. If our body is at peace with our soul, then anything which comes to us would be at peace. 

Unfortunately Zeroth law talks only about the final state of equilibrium- the eternal peaceful state. But it doesn't talk about the path taken to achieve that. To our rescue comes in the First law of thermodynamics, which talks about the balance of energy; give something, a part of it would be consumed and the rest given out. The law balances out everything.

According to psychology, a person who smiles or laughs a lot, is said to be unhappy deep inside. So basically, the person is giving out happiness by consuming the pain. To quote a world-class example- is the most beautiful Taj mahal!  Everyone appreciates its beauty and architecture; but no one talks about the workers behind the magnificent structure that is said to be the embodiment of love. The workers were poorly treated with their hands amputated by the emperor so that they wouldn’t build such a beauty again.

Another example - when we say Gandhi was responsible for non-violence, he was the winner; but at the cost of many lives. The list of examples is umpteen. In all the examples, it can clearly be understood what the inputs, outputs and consumed are. 

Now let us look into the second law of thermodynamics, which comprises of two statements, and each of the statement starts with, ''it is impossible to ...'' . Briefly speaking about the first statement, it says, '' it is impossible to work with a single reservoir''.  Hence lays the importance of having a source and sink.

From the above examples it is evident that source and sink go hand in hand. The second statement of the law states that, '' it is impossible to extract energy from low temperature to high temperature without doing any work''.

People who ‘believe’ they are at peace are more vulnerable than the ones who are actually at peace on a day-to-day basis. It is very easy for the former ones to lose their so-called ‘peace’ due to minute things. The latter ones are stronger in their personality and it takes a lot of effort to change them or perturb them and it can’t happen all by itself.

The bottom line is that, to remain at peace and to enter the real temple of peace we have to walk on the rubble of pain or suffering of self or of anyone. So my query is how can such a person be at peace? Because those things will follow us and we cant discard them. Our memories and thought won’t let that happen.

Also, life or state of happiness is never an absolute entity. It doesn’t exist by itself. So this means, we really can never be happy. Happiness is just an illusion…!

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination .... # Immanuel Kant.