Valley of Flowers 2

Continuing from the previous post Valley of Flowers,

Original Source Wikipedia.org

Details about the photograph and ownership, find it here

Wishing all the readers a happy and propserous 2011. I would like to share a picture from the place. I hope you like it. Thank you all.

Valley of Flowers

Valley of flowers, a beautiful, stunning, picturesque valley with 300 different alpine flowers is a discovery by a botanist and trekker Frank Smith in 1931 by accident. Naturally the serene valley left a mark on his thoughts that he even penned a book titled 'Valley of Flowers'.If you want to further explore about this beautiful and heavenly valley follow this link and see for yourself.
Discovery of Valley of Flowers 

More stunning pictures of flora and fauna at this wiki link.
 Wikilink- Valley of Flowers

More information about when to visit and lots of other information on hotels etc., at this link.
More Information on Valley of Flowers

Now there's a movie too titled Valley of Flowers, I don't  think you knew it before.
Movie titled Valley of Flowers

There's one more link that I wanted to share.
Another beautiful picture of Valley of Flowers
What a co-incidence as I provide you with so many links and this blog Valleyz is themed after Valleys and there's many flowers here too, haha :)

I hope you have enjoyed this sudden online discovery of mine. I wanted to share something special for all of my readers who visit this blog and take their time to leave comments. I thank you for all your visits and the follow. I hope year 2011 brings peace and joy in the lives of all people on the planet. Wishing you the best and signing off my last blog post of the year 2010. So here's a beautiful valley for you to explore.  Don't forget to leave your comments on What do you think about Valley of Flowers. See you in 2011. Cheers!!!

Can You Create Your Own Happiness?

During a recent discussion on  a question behind the philosophy of happiness, I made a comment which I would like to make available to you and please feel free to leave your thoughts on the subject.

The link to the discussion post can be found here.

The questions under discussion are as follows, And below you can find my reply to these questions.

1. Do you think people can create their own happiness?
2. Do you think opportunities for happiness come along, and then you have to seize them?
3. Do you think it's even reasonable for people to expect much happiness, considering that life is so full of hazards and unexpected developments which constantly upset and overturn our dreams and our plans?
 
Before answering your questions I will again like to stress what does happiness means to us? like by putting this question ,

What is happiness?

Being in a happy state of mind is what I think.

I think it's an emotion. It is an illusion. Like all the emotions in this world. The real question is why are we so dependent on such emotions?

1.Yes, of course. But we all have different standards. Is there any need for a single standard?

2. Yes, as well as no. Yes in a sense you need to grab some opportunities like say in a relationship by showing how much you care for the other person.

And no because for some things you just can't do anything and are helpless, like a farmer waiting for the rains for his standing crops, he could do nothing but is at the mercy of the skies. If there's no rainfall in whole of a nation, it's a troublesome situation for the country. A farmer as such expects rainfall and when it rains, he is happy. That's his happiness to reap a full harvest.

3.Life is as such a hazard in itself so to speak. If we think how much time have we spent on this planet, it feels like very little. Though we may have some memories of old, but still the moment we live in is the one we grasp at hand. As such a life is so short that sometimes we miss the mark to measure it up precisely, is what I think personally.

And regarding your question, is it reasonable? Yes, of course. What do we think the purpose of life is?

And the latter part of your question is nothing but the reality of life, there's no way to escape it. Death is part of life, hazards as such, humanity has learned the bitter hard way how to survive.

If we are to think that nothings gonna struck ahead in the future as we see now and feel that human species have evolved. I think we are a bit over confident about what we have achieved altogether.

Dreams and plans are meant to be upset on this planet, because we haven't found the root cause of an ultimate plan called Universe and hence. If we still are happy and are creating our happiness then there's nothing wrong in it but the thing that we are overtly generous.

Does that mean one does not need to create his own happiness?

No.

But whatever happiness oneself creates must be reflecting the reality and truth is what I think.

What views do you have regarding happiness?