Tag: life

What in life makes you happy

So, What is happiness ? Well, let’s say happiness is a trap.

An ingenious trap designed by billions of years of evolution to keep us in the loop of surviving.

Without the occasional spurt of ‘feel good’ chemicals within our bodies, there would be no motivation to survive and reproduce and continue this perpetually endless cycle of purposelessness. And that is why, evolution was kind enough to bless us with a twist of happiness to our otherwise dull lives.

Now, just think, do you feel happy when you eat good/tasty food? Yes? Well, it’s not your fault. It’s the evolutions way of ‘telling’ us to eat good food, so that we can keep our bodies healthy and reproduce.

Do you feel happy when you help others? It’s not your fault either. It’s just a useful trait for social animals like ourselves to keep on surviving and reproducing.

Do you feel happy when you are the reason for someone’s happiness? If so, you’ve just been ‘used’ by evolution to perpetuate happiness among us, to make us believe that being alive is worth it despite all the suffering.

Still not convinced? Well, the next time you feel happy, try figuring out the source of that happiness, and understand how it makes sense from an evolutionary perspective.

Of course the ‘happiness trap’ is not perfect. Evolution is somewhat slow at adapting to change. For example, the occasional rush you get when you eat junk food – that should have been corrected a long time ago when shortage of food stopped being the bottleneck for survival. And, there are always anomalies… experiments gone wrong, like the psychopaths who take pleasure in harming others.

Basically, it’s all a giant game of trial and error. Whatever works to keep us surviving, will be used on us through the happiness trap.

Let’s list out some things that makes you happy.

Good Music: You woke up with good music in your ears. You feel refreshed and energetic. Work with your headphones on. One of the biggest joys can be discovering an obscure Indie band on Youtube, 8tracks or Soundcloud for that matter.

Reading: This is one thing everyone should agree. Reading is fun. Isn’t it ?

The people in your life: Life is much happier when you have good company. Surround yourself by amazing people with a zeal for life.

Travel: You should travel (a lot) and explore things. This is the best thing and makes you happy too. Find out new stuff. Discover places, enjoy with friends.

Meeting new People: Meet new people. Talk to them. Learn something new. Socialize. It makes everyone happy.

Win: Whether its a game or a moment in life. A win always give you happiness and fill your soul with positiveness.

Be Happy and keep smiling. It costs nothing !

Mar 22, 2015
The gem of true friendship is the key to a happy life

Do you have a lifelong friends? The ones we met in school or the ones we met in our college time. The life is best spent out when you are with friends. Remember the moments you feel relaxed and had fun with your closet friends. These are the moments of your life. You don’t come to realize them until they become memories. You take pictures with them, you eat, you talk and sometimes you fight. And these little fights make the bond even stronger !

We’ve been hanging around each other for a long time now. Few people make me laugh until my eyes water and my sides hurt. We make fun of each other and then everyone laughs. Nobody feels lonely.

You treasure your friends because no matter how deep a shit you dig for yourself, they’ll stand by your side even when you’re wrong just to bring you back on the right path afterwards. They can crack you up even when you’re crying your eyes out. You can lose your brains together and go full retard just to sit on the front porch some day reminiscing being a child again.

True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face.

You can discuss anything and everything with them no matter how lame the topics can be. And most important of all, they make planet earth inhabitable by you even when you go tired.

There are always something we can share only with friends but not with parents/siblings for they care too much about us. e.g. Indian parents would certainly say a big no for a para gliding trip. Every one acts like an ideal son/daughter in front of parents but with real friends we are all real,naked. Their honest opinion is real worthy.

Self-esteem boost: Friends bring out the best in us,boost our morale, help in the bad times and most importantly they value us.They make us feel important for them.

Sharing dreams: We want people with whom we can share our dreams and ambitions and we want someone loyal. So who can be a better start-up partner than the best buddy.

Connectors: Friendship create a virtual network. It is always better to deal with a friend of friend than a complete stranger.

Our parents may not be always there,but friends can be for life time.

We’re all imperfect creatures, we have no way of reaching the point where we have a complete understanding of ourselves, instead we drift in varying levels of ignorance and fear, tipped with our success.

This is where friends assist us toward our ultimate goal of total self awareness. Friends see things we don’t see, hear things not meant for our ears. So much of us they know and that knowledge is a vein of pure gold for all, guiding us toward a clearer path to the center we call self.

Real friends are like mirror , they show who really we are.

Mar 16, 2015
7 tips for improving your smartphone’s battery life

There are a few tricks which can help extend a smartphone’s battery – even tiny details, such as choosing a dark screensaver, not a bright one, can help. Here’s how to improve smartphone’s battery life. These are applicable for android, iPhone or any phone.

Don’t charge it to full
“Battery memory” means that you should never run your battery empty – and avoid charging it to full. “You should try to go from around 40 per cent to around 80 per cent in one go, and then back down whenever possible,” says experts. “A bunch of tiny charges isn’t as bad as going from 100 down to zero all the time, but it’s not optimal either.”

Force your phone to sleep
Your phone will last far longer if it goes into “deep sleep” whenever possible. If you have a lot of apps, some of them may be keeping your phone ‘awake’, just to communicate with home base. An Android app called Better Battery Stats will run down exactly what is waking up your phone, and enable you to turn it off. If you can keep your phone in ‘deep sleep’, it’ll last.

Go dark
Turn the brightness settings down on your phone. Most of your phone’s battery drain is from running the screen. On any phone, set the screen to turn off after 30 seconds.

Switch screensaver off
Don’t use animated screensavers. It even makes a difference to switch to a black, or dark, screen background so it doesn’t burn as much electricity when you’re in the menus.

Shut down apps you don’t need

Make sure your phone isn’t running apps in the background. On iPhone, you can check by double-tapping the Home button, then pressing ‘X’ to shut ones you don’t need. If you’re unsure, restart your phone to banish apps that might be running without you knowing.

Turn off Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi unless you’re using htem

Switch off wi-fi, Bluetooth, and GPS unless you need them. This will immediately add about a third to your battery life. Lots of people leave them on all the time. On both iPhone and Android, controls to do this are easily accessed via phone menu.

Check your battery

If your phone gets hot while you use it, it could be that your battery is on its last legs. New ones are cheap on eBay, and if your phone’s old, you can also get ones with much higher storage than the ones it shipped with. Sorry, iPhone owners, this won’t work for you – you can’t take the back off.

Jun 28, 2013