HOME
AND HAPPINESS
Both home and happiness are essential. Without home, you are
a vagabond and without happiness you are uncomfortable. Home is defined in many
ways. It is a house, a residence, a
dwelling place, a habitation. More precisely, it is a family comprising your
parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters and if you are
married your wife and children. It is more than a shelter. Here you live and
learn, become a citizen, an employee, a businessman or whatever else you are
destined to be. It is a cradle of your growth, comforts, protection, survival, emotional
health and intellectual growth.
Happiness is joy, gladness, enjoyment,
bliss, merriment and cheerfulness which is impossible in loneliness. For that you must have company of kith and
kin, relatives, colleagues, neighbours and friends.
English clergy James Hamilton (1814-67)
says six things are requisite to create a “happy home.” Integrity must be the
architect, and tidiness the upholsterer. It must be warmed by affection,
lighted up with cheerfulness; an industry must be the ventilator, renewing the atmosphere
and bringing in fresh salubrity day by day ; while overall, as a protecting canopy
and glory, nothing will suffice except the blessing of God.
According to the German author and
philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) “”He is the happiest, be he
king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. “
And finally, it is rightly believed that
the strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the
intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people.-----American author Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney, ( 1791 -1865).
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G.R.Kanwal
31 July 2024
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