"Diana Revealed" was screened last night on central. I caught the bio-documentary after downing a bowl of noodles and showering. The documentary provided viewers with a rather thorough insight into the private life of the "people's princess". The interview, conducted throughout the summer of 1992, included her feelings about her family, her fairy-tale wedding to Prince Charles, living with royalty and so much more.
I guess the one lesson I learnt was that Happiness can't be bought. Neither can Happiness be found or discovered as mentioned in all those popular idioms or phrases out there. Happiness is something you have to work hard for and make. Happiness has to be earned. It isn't given to you on a silver platter or in a golden spoon. Success in life can be measured in many forms, material wealth being the easiest and most commonly used form of measurement. Others measure their success through the amount of influence or "power" they have. Many I know measure theirs through their amount of popularity they think they have. I guess using something one can feel, see and touch is always the easiest and most convenient form of measurement.
I admit I used to be entrenched in that world not too long ago, striving for attention, craving for that one more glance, desiring that one more new friend and so on and so forth. And then that was when it occured to me. Was that what I really wanted, to be the one people miss on a saturday night out, to be the one with all the invites to the best parties in town or to be the one people talk about most on their blogs and other online social networking sites? I am not going to go all saintly and deny that I did aspire to be and have all that... but I guess I realised that having all that didn't account for anything at all.
Success, to me, is an extremely abstract concept which I admit I have not grasped entirely. But at least, I know what it is not...
I guess the one lesson I learnt was that Happiness can't be bought. Neither can Happiness be found or discovered as mentioned in all those popular idioms or phrases out there. Happiness is something you have to work hard for and make. Happiness has to be earned. It isn't given to you on a silver platter or in a golden spoon. Success in life can be measured in many forms, material wealth being the easiest and most commonly used form of measurement. Others measure their success through the amount of influence or "power" they have. Many I know measure theirs through their amount of popularity they think they have. I guess using something one can feel, see and touch is always the easiest and most convenient form of measurement.
I admit I used to be entrenched in that world not too long ago, striving for attention, craving for that one more glance, desiring that one more new friend and so on and so forth. And then that was when it occured to me. Was that what I really wanted, to be the one people miss on a saturday night out, to be the one with all the invites to the best parties in town or to be the one people talk about most on their blogs and other online social networking sites? I am not going to go all saintly and deny that I did aspire to be and have all that... but I guess I realised that having all that didn't account for anything at all.
Success, to me, is an extremely abstract concept which I admit I have not grasped entirely. But at least, I know what it is not...
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