QUOTE(Uncertainty @ Sep 19 2007, 11:11 AM)

i dont agree @ Happiness is key to success ..
and BNK gave gud example ..
am replying in regard to both your reply and BNK's reply & example..
let me put two scenarios infront of you..
1. when someone is doing what brings success and happiness to him/her
2. when someone is doing what brings success to him/her but no happiness
in the first case.. happiness and success is there.. when you are happy in what you do.. you get successful.. and thats a fact.. if you are doing something whole heartedly and you tend to put everything you got in it.. then success is guarateed.. plus.. happiness leading to success results in more happiness.. and examples are not juss a few cases but almost the whole world out there.. this concept of forced career choosing jis ki example di hai BNK ne.. its just in Pakistan.. ive lived 13 years in paris.. and ive been in that community and society since my birth.. my family my parents never imposed anything on me.. ke buss engineer bano ya doctor bano ya phir acca kero.. instead.. they let me choose what i wanted to be.. and Alhamdullilah am a software engineer and successful and ive been always happy in doing what i did so am excelling.. thats how people become singers, poets, artists, actors, mathematicians, teachers, plumbers, rally racers, fighters, sportsmen, newscasters, etc etc.. coz these fields are what they choose for themselves with their happiness.. and when you are happy in doing something.. automatically efficiency comes in your work, you dont get tired doing the same job day to day, you do work with passion and perfection and a spirit to excell, ultimately you get money, you get fame, you get successful with your happiness completely in it.. even in the long run, when you get old, and its time to retire.. you retire with happy memories, without any regrets.. like a fire fighter retires after 50 years of service, ofcourse all those pictures and memories of his friends and the moments they have been together during the job, the tough routines, challenges, happy n sad moments, he remembers them all, he cherishes his memories, and sitting with his grand children, he tells them stories of how he used to work and do this n that.. so its a happy ending.. to be honest seriously its like a happily ever after.. coz he never sacrificed his happiness over getting money, fame, fortune, success, etc.. and thats the essence of his life that he has..
now lets go to the other scenario..
now if there is someone that starts doing something under certain pressures, difficulties, and no affiliations to the job or the field.. tu uss ne tu start hi ghalat lia hai.. jis imarat ki buniyaadein kamzor houn.. uss pe 50 saaloun mein 50 manzilein bhi tameer ker do tab bhi uss ko aik na aik din girna hi hota hai.. aik kaam ka aghaz hi bad dili se ho tu uss ka anjam tu automatically bura hona hi hai coz neeyat hi na ho tu kaam mein barkat kahan se ati hai.. aur phir emotional baatoun ko chalo mein side pe rakhta houn.. logically prove ker deta houn.. apni misaal de ker.. suppose my parents wanted me to become a doctor.. although am least interested in being a doc.. i hate biology and anatomy.. lekin i am struggling through it.. har roz raat ko soney se pehley dekhta houn ke merey dost engineers ban rehey hein.. they are inventing new things, going into the hi-tech world aur mein yahan pe bacteria viruses mein phansa howa houn.. still chalo kisi na kisi tarah.. i manage to complete my doctory.. lekin.. even at the convocation day.. even while recieving the degree.. even while throwing the graduate caps in the air with my whole university batch.. i have one feeling in my heart.. ke KAASH.!!! so that kaash remains there in my heart.. time guzar jata hai.. mujhe khushi tu koi khas nahi hai.. lekin haan success mil jata hai.. kisi hostpital mein job mil jati hai.. acha paisa kama leta houn.. jitna ke almost koi aur bhi hota tab bhi kama leta.. aur buss aik 9 to 5 routine job start.. na koi khas mehnat.. na koi lagan.. na koi shauk.. interest less kaam kerta rehta houn.. coz deep inside.. that KAASH is teasing me all the time.. jab mein milney jata houn apney doston se and they tell me ke yaar, ajj humari new product ka launch hai.. japanese companies and americans are coming for the premiere and launch of the product.. we have international exposure and market.. tab meri wo KAASH cheekh cheekh ker keh rehee ho gi ke mein bhi un ki jagah pe kioun nahi houn.. lekin phir mein bad dil ho ker next day chala jaoun ga apna wohi aik bag utha ker aik room ke clinic mein.. halankey jo log khushi se doctor baney houn ge.. wo uss kamrey ko bhi apni janat samjhein ge.. lekin mein nahi samjhoun ga.. waqt guzarta jaye ga.. aur merey saath ke buhat sarey doctors kitni kisam ki specializations like DABS, FRCS, FCPS, etc etc ker chukey hein ge.. koi orthopedics koi neurology etc etc.. aur mein kioun ke apney MBBS ke 5 saaloun mein itna khuwaar ho ho ker apni degree ker ke aya houn ga.. so mein apni wohi 40,50 hazaar ki pay se khush baash baitha rahoun ga coz mein janta houn mein dobara apni khushi ko kurban ker ke ab phir se uss azaab wali studies mein nahi jana chahta jis ko mein ne zabardasti kabool kia tha.. ho sakta hai mein buhat mashoor MBBS general physician ban jaoun.. but still the KAASH never goes.. time goes on.. aur phir mein retire ho jata houn.. aur mein apney bachoun ko aur apney grand children ko apni koi stories nahi sunata.. chirchira ban jata houn.. coz meri sari life hi aik majboori mein guzri hai.. aur phir wo success jo mujhe mila tha, wo paisa, wo shuhrat, wo sab chor chaar ker issi duniya mein aik bura sa dil ley ker aik aas aur regrets ke saath aik din.. meri maut ho jati hai..
so.. mujh mashoor o maroof, successful, paisey waley MBBS doctor se behter aik mamooli fire fighter howa na???
kam se kam khush aur baghair kisi regret ke tu gaya hai na iss duniya se..!!!!
this is the long run and the perfect example to prove that happiness is the only key to success..
and happiness being a key to success guarantees more happiness without any regrets after success.. BUT
if you think success is the key to happiness, then success not based on happiness but based on forcefull imposure may give you some happiness at the end.. but
it would never be pure happiness.. and it would always have regrets and too many KAASH's in it..
i hope ive made myself lucid here..