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MAGICAL DEMO SHOPPING A Professor brought a big empty glass Jar, Golf balls, A box of Pebbles, A Box of Sand and a Bucket of Water to his Class. The students were wondering, and the Professor started filling the Jar with the Golf balls up to the brim. He asked "Is it full ?". The students said "Yes Sir. It is full". Then he took of the box of Pebbles and poured into the Jar, shook the Jar. The Pebbles rolled into the gap between the Golf balls and sat safely. He asked again whether the Jar is full and the Students said yes. He then poured the Box of Sand and it went freely into the gaps again, up to the top. He asked again whether the Jar is full, and the Students were hesitating a little bit to answer !!. Then he poured the water from the Bucket into the Jar. Quite a good amount went inside and soaked into the sand, up to the brim. The students said that they won't answer, and wondered what else may go into the Jar. The professor said no more to fill. But everybody should under stand that Empty or Full is relative. There is always something thing to fill any thing, relative to the size of objects chosen. Filled with bigger objects, there is room for smaller objects to go in, and the reverse is not true. If the jar is filled with Water first and tried in the reverse order, then nothing can go in, and the Jar will be in a saturated full stage. LOGICAL INFO SHOPPING So is the fulfillment of one's Desire and attaining Happiness. It is a relative feeling with reference to the level of objectives to attain in the individual's mind. We should aim to acquire the relatively important and bigger goals like the Family, Children, Good health, Education, Friendship etc.. like the Golf balls. Then aim for relatively smaller and next priorities in life like a house, car etc.. similar to the Pebbles. The one should go to acquire still smaller priorities of luxury items similar to the Sand and Water. This is a rule of relative Desire and Acquisition of items, leading towards a properly synchronised Happiness. In life also, if one goes in the reverse desires, then there will be no room to fill the needs of more important and high priority items. ECONOMIC SCENARIO SHOPPING Economic Development and its relationship to the Happiness of the people, is also a relative linkage between the Wealth and its Enjoyment. As the year 2004 (Y2K+4) has come to the end, the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in the Middle East region is estimated to have improved at an average of 10 Per cent. People should feel better of, than what they were in the beginning of 2004. The strong performance of the region's stock markets and the surge in the real estate prices has increased the number of Arab Millionaires. A sizeable portion of this wealth has trickled down to the people in the lower income bracket. The question is "Are all these persons in different income brackets Happier ? A sample survey indicates that over 75% hesitate to express a positive happiness level. The complexity of unhappiness is remotely linked to the Euro going stronger with reference to US$ (Dollar). At the top-rich level, more $'s are needed to buy European quality and luxury items, an offsetting development the acquired economic happiness. At the bottom expatriate poor worker level, $ or its related currency remittances to his poor native country results in smaller local deposits, because the local currency is linked to Euro (Note : Not because the poor local country has done some economic or productive strides to make their currency strong in the International exchange market !!. I is a notional and relational gain!!!). At all levels, there is a common cause for un-happiness due to the prices of essential needs comprising food items , services and housing (the basic ingredients for happiness), are increasing, disproportionate to the gains acquired through more money generation. About 800 affluent house holds in USA expressed a feeling that un-rich should be more happier than them, as per a report in the Los Angeles Times of January 14, 2004. In this survey, more than 50% said that acquiring more wealth did not bring more happiness, and about 33% firmly said that money brought more problems, than it solved. The answer is not in the Supply and Demand curve. But all other analysis to measure the correlation between the income and standard of living too, are not able to confirm the answer for this relationship between the Tangible wealth and Intangible Happiness !!! People who have moved up in the income ladder do attest that money is able to buy some happiness. But beyond some income level, people do not get more happier. So far Governments are using the growth of GDP as a measure to the Social well being and Happier life. But it is still a vague relation builder!!! Although improvement in material well being makes people happy, they are relative to the time and the habituation of the society. For example, TV and Mobile phones, which were considered as a luxuries about 10 years before, has become an essential item even for those in the lowest level of domestic living, in the current millennium. Other important factor is the psychology of the people to compare their living situation with others. This vitiates the dimension of happiness to a relative scale between people and the society around. Unemployment, Poverty and the Feeling of insecurity are major source of unhappiness. Hence, the role of the governments should be to enlarge the promotion of conditions that will induct more happiness to the people, than be happy with increasing GDP as a closed shell indicator. Do public and private sectors promote happiness, through shorter working hours, more vacations, increase in salaries etc... It is tried in Germany with 35 hour work week, with a host of provisions for staff enjoyment. But still the rate of Depression among Germans is high !!! In all brackets of income, the people in USA are supposed to be at a higher plane than those in other countries. But the crime rate in USA is not only large, but it is increasing in direct proportion with more development, and with more sources for higher income. Hence, in the last decades, those priorities which were considered as low importance which could fill to the brim and leave no room to get the essential needs, have moved upward to occupy the gaps of prime / essential needs in the current decade. This is a forward development in the Environment and Ecology. No body can stop this. TEE & EYE COMBO SHOPPING Changing priorities are like the Golf balls, Pebbles, Sand and Water changing their shapes. One does not know what to fill first . Clinically it is like the AIDS virus changing its DNA signature, so that no designated antibiotic can kill it. At any point of time, one cannot understand what ingredients should go into the making his / her happiness !!! Is there any cure for it ? Yes »» By Joggling T & E for Individual (I) Happines (H)
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