are we happy than our forefathers>??

[neha.bms]

i say noooo .. we are not happy than our forefathers... basically in their era....they lived a stressfree life.... n we here hv lot of stress...
basically i can say we can never be satisfied....



your views....plzzz............

[sami459]

this is a question that is asked by our grand pa & grand uncles according to dem we have forgotten what is happiness. they say that in our fast paced life we dont know wat is it to be happy.



i accept the fact that we have lost the slow paced life but i feel at that time even dey must be feeling that their forefathers are much happier than them thats why i feel its a cycle that just flows.:director:

[rj031086]

i say noooo .. we are not happy than our forefathers... basically in their era....they lived a stressfree life.... n we here hv lot of stress...
basically i can say we can never be satisfied....

your views....plzzz............

I believe, happiness comes from stability. Everyone in this world wants stability. But that is not possible at all.
Even Mr Maslow's hierarchy diagram says that. Person has to have his basic needs, than something better, then something more better n so on till he reaches self actualization stage. Even @<hidden> that level he is not satisfied as he desire for more.

Humans can never be fully satisfied as our needs become our wants. We need food but we want MacD burger.

One cant DEBATE that our forefathers were more happy or not. For instance, Britishers treated us like dogs and if we were happy that time nobody would have wanted freedom. Now when we are free, again we ask whether we are happy or not.

Its just the matter of stability which everyone wants and never achieves completely.
We need to be happy and satisfied with whatever work we do.

[yogeshmakharia]

no.... our forefathers were much happier

[gurpreetsingh]

Well i think that our forfathers were more happier than us. Yes i accept time has given lot to us, lots of facilities, etc but it has also increased stress in our life. We live more comfortable life than our forefathers but ask your self you are happy ? i can 100% say we are not happy because we forgot the emotions, sentiments, and feelings. In present world we are nothing less than a robot with a brain, a robot who only wants to live for himself, a robot who is only concerned with his work.
I will say that our forefathers were lucky as they were close to nature, they lived for each others.

[bhaskar75]

I THINK IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO IS HAPPIER...ITS JUST THAT WE ALL HAVE TO LIVE!!!

[parul.gupta]

our forefathers may or may not have been happier than we are. they had their own reasons for stress and had to face problems which we are not facing today. i think it is how well we live each moment that decides our happiness and comparison between then and now is not possible as the scenarios are totally different

[ashairways]

Being a Mauritian of Hindu faith, my forefathers came from India and if I make a flashback, I can say that we are far much better and happy than them. The rift between us and them are gigantic.

[Mr.M Rizvi]

I don't think i could be any happier bcuz in our forefathers time the technology was not so sophisticated and everything was not so easy as compared 2 today...but if we see in accordance wid the financial point of view we are not even close...:(

[Nirmal_3913]

Well,

When you talk about stress then, deffiniately our forefathers were happy, but there are various aspects where answer changes.

Technologies- Well no need of explanation, we all know we are more happy in terms of technologies & Luxuries.

Education-Also in older days there was a less education whereas now-a-days there is so many talk about Educational Importance.

Political Leaders-Huh..Deffiniately our forefathers were happy by having such a great leaders who were ready to 'Fanah' for 'Bharat Mata', whereas now situation is what we have already seen. :frusty:

Socialism-In older days guest were treated as god, & now many of us don't like to have guest as we have leisure time just in weekends, so socialism were rich.

And there are many aspects where answer differs...

But I can say that spirit of being Indian is still there in the heart of our 'Youngistan'....& I think we should be happy for this only.

Jai Hind...

[hemangi_ingale]

well, its difficult to answer this because happiness is a relative term. if someone thinks in materialistic terms then we are happier but if we think in terms of what all seem to discuss above them we are certainly not happy since we don't have the stress free life, happiness in little things and being content.

[krunal7369]

yes i really agree with neha we are in dilemma. As i am doing MBA after daily lectures i have surf net, watch biz on tv, check sms(biz groups) and even read newspaper and magazine....

we are now doing multitasking. people who donot copeup with it end into stress

[mustafa346]

its a hard question but in my opion we have more opportunities to enjoy now..there are so many things to do in our leisure times to enjoy.

[sujaydas85]

happiness is subjective.. as a collective whole maybe we are not.. but individually it depends.

[HARSHA6183]

not really,stress has always been there, but there has been changes in difficulties thru ages, life wasnt hectic then but it is, medicine was primitive and nw advanced,every age has its difficulties

[subscriptionsxyz]

Umm.. I doubt..but have to say that happiness depends on one's inness than generation..

[rajanlove]

So, are you happy? Are you truly content? Or are there many things that you wish you could change? Do you wish you had a better job? A better girlfriend or boyfriend, wife or husband? A better place to live? A nicer car? Are there other changes you anticipate in your life which should give you happiness after having accomplished or achieved them?

Let's face it, if you are still hoping for happiness, it means you don't have it. Sure, sure, maybe things are OK and not too bad. Maybe you need to appreciate what you have more than you do. We all need to do that. Yet, maybe you are still hoping for improvements, substantial changes. However, just trying to be satisfied with what we already have doesn't mean we have to stagnate, or merely act like everything is just fine. And if you haven't found the spontaneous or self-sufficient happiness that you would like by now, maybe you do not know where to find it. So where are we supposed to look?

[deepakraam]

I think its a question to be generalised.Happiness to individuals mean diff things when comparing between 2 generations we can't say for sure.I'm afraid we will end with one answer.

[HARSHA6183]

i accept the fact that we have lost the slow paced life but i feel at that time even dey must be feeling that their forefathers are much happier than them

[armin]

yes we are,we have tried so much to be better and we did that absolutely right.buy working,studing harder that them.

[anand2110]

Well im happy with my forfathers. as athey had stress free lifes because ther needs were less..in 2day's world our basic needs have increased..to make us hstressfree

[bnharsha]

Well i totally agree with u that we r not at all happy with any work that we do these days, as we are under constant stress all the time. Our previous generations were fortunate enough 2 be born in that time where they didn't have so stressful lives. Although even they had many problems 2 face. But the fact is that they were happy with whatever they had whereas we r all living in a generation where everybody is behind money & greediness is the order of the day. But i would like to conclude that we are still lucky enough 2 be born in this generation, as the future generations r going 2 face still more complex problems than us & their lives r going 2 be real HELLLLLL!!!