So, Who Else Is Not Making You Happy?

Apart from your parents, that is.

Of course, everybody knows that anyway. It's a given. Parents are the first reason for your eternal unhappiness. They just don't seem to 'get it.' They never have 'got it.' Never. Not once in the whole history of human kind have they really 'got it.' But that's a fundamental universal problem. Let's concentrate on bigger things. Your current personal issues. I mean, what is not making you happy? Who is not making you happy? Every one of us has his or her own favourite list. What's on your's?

Go ahead. Spill it out.

It's your neighbour who plays loud music, isn't it? Or is it your girlfriend who is hell bent on holidaying in Bali? Let me just make a few educated guesses here. You can nod your head when you agree with me, ok?

Is it that crazy son-of-a-swine who cut you off the road this morning in a shiny new Fiesta? Or your slimy boss who took another dig at your 'brilliant' idea? Your company for offering peanuts for a paycheck? The government for everything right from inflation, evils of globalisation to pollution and traffic jams? The cleaners, doctors, pedestrians, autorickshaw drivers, speeding call centre cabs, beggers on the streets...

Whoever thought life was going to be like this? There you do nothing, absolutely nothing, to get in the way of trouble. But trouble finds you nonetheless. Just to make you unhappy. It comes in all shapes and sizes. An over-bearing father, a mother who doesn't understand, friends who are just plain opportunists, an education system that numbs your mind, no money, work that dulls your spirit, weather that's dangerously similar to a baking oven, air that's only just a little less toxic than over flowing sewage that you have to walk by. Girls with no brains, boys with no money, roads that resemble battle grounds, traffic that's good enough to give a heart attack, too many beautiful people, too little time, cosmetic surgery that you cannot afford, night shifts, no over-time, peer pressure, violence, reckless and arrogant drivers, senseless flyovers... the list is long and winding.

You know it. I know it. But heck, what's the point? Nobody seems to give a damn. They are simply not ready to move their lazy butts. They are just not willing to make things any better. Make you happy. The only people who do seem to want to do something are walking around in groups distributing leaflets and trying to headbutt running trains to a halt. I have no idea how that's gonna help you.

The situation, as you can see, isn't very hopeful. This is added grief to your existing bag of woes.

But sure, man, somebody's gotta do something. Some one has to, right? They better realise it soon. After all, it's a question of your happiness.