BY: FAEIZ SHAH

Everyone in this world wants to be successful and happy, but the story is otherwise for many people as they encounter failure after failure and suffer from much unhappiness and feel as if nothing they do can make them successful and happy.

Why is this so? For those of us who feel miserable and unhappy, it might be prudent and wise to see the yardstick used to measure success and the reasons for the feelings of unhappiness and misery in their lives.

It might be useful for all of us to realise that life is short even though you may live to a ripe old age but in that space of time instead of living in unrealistic expectations let’s face up to reality and everything that bugs us.

You will be fitter and be a more complete and fulfilled person if you only care to take a look within yourself to satisfy yourself and not draw comparisons with others or harbour unreal expectations though you should be allowed to dream.

The happiest people on earth share their secret and it is to live for the day and live the day to the fullest because yesterday is gone and tomorrow is out of sight therefore they do not waste a day but fill every moment building up themselves.

If people can stick to this regimen, if they can follow the secrets of successful and happy people they will learn the importance of treasuring each day and living it well so that at the end of their lives they can look back at living a fulfilled and satisfying life.

-THE MALAYSIA VOICE

** The views expressed on this opinion is of the writer and not the publisher