Originally Posted by PatchyBoy
Scenario 1: A rickshaw puller, gets paid a handsome tip by a generous passenger and can afford the book his child was asking for. So he rushes to the bookshop, gets the book and rushes home to give it to his child. When the child sees what the father has brought, the child beams and hugs the father. They both are happy.
Scenario 2: A pickpocket hits the jackpot, when the bag he just robbed has 100,000 rupees in cash. So he takes all his friends out on a drinking binge followed by a visit to the local red light district. Because they have so much cash, they pay the women there handsomely. All the men and women are laughing. They all are happy.
Having said that, from the 2 scenarios above, doing what one really wants to do seems to be the key to happiness.