Are you aware about this TRUTH, The great majority of people lead unhappy lives,(the secret sorrows)?

Question

During the course of your life, you have met a great many people. As well as those you encounter every day in person—your family, friends and your colleagues at school and work—you see dozens of people from all over the world in the newspapers and magazines. And on your TV screen, you watch the behavior of hundreds more.
Think for a moment about these individuals you recall in your memory. Try to call to mind facial expressions and conversations you have grown accustomed to since your childhood... the comments some have made about their lives, their concerns and worries and the ways they express them... the remarks that colleagues repeat daily, and what others say amongst themselves about their families and financial problems.
Try to recall in your mind's eye the people you've seen in the street, waiting at a bus stop, trying to battle their way home through dense traffic, or being splashed with rainwater by passing cars.

Remember the images of actors in TV programs, those who act the part of happy people, seemingly enjoying themselves in front of the cameras and who claim to the press that they're friends but behind one another's backs, say unbelievably bad things. Think about their spiritual state and the state of those unable to protect themselves from jealousy, hatred, rivalry or other such emotions—and who, while trying to entertain others because it is their job to do so, betray their own unhappiness in everything they do off-stage and off-camera.
Examine the lives of people who have attained the highest possible worldly rank, who have enough money to buy whatever they want whenever they choose, who live in the finest houses and own the latest model cars, who wear the most expensive clothes and who—because of their achievements— are most respected and listened to in their community.

When you carefully consider all these people, you will come across a very important truth. Whatever their circumstances may be, there is one significant feature they have in common: The great majority of people lead unhappy lives.
The goods and property they own, the jobs they perform, and their loved ones are not enough to make these people happy in any real sense. These people's lives are ruled not by happiness, tranquility, pleasure and joy, but by negative emotions like melancholy, pessimism and hopelessness. A great part of most people's time is spent in this mood. When compared to true happiness, those moments when they are capable of being happy are fleeting and extremely shallow.
Sometimes, too, they may be driven to deceive both themselves and those around them. Yet deep inside, they are experiencing a secret sorrow that prevents them from taking pleasure in all the good they see around them.

So why are these people unhappy? Why do they suffer such deep inward sorrow and lead lives that lack tranquility?
The reason why they suffer from sorrow and feel unhappy even in the best of circumstances is because they live at a distance from Allah(God). Allah grants people happiness only through faith, and only in this way it is possible to take full pleasure in the beautiful things of life. So long as no sincere faith in accordance with the Qur'an exists, it is impossible to achieve true happiness by any means whatsoever.
This book(the link below):
http://www.harunyahya.com/books/faith/secret_sorrows/secret_sorrows01.php
will highlight this important truth and call on people to live out true and sincere faith. It will explain that people really create with their own efforts the systems that prevent them from being happy and enjoying life's blessings, and which plunge them into sorrow

It will make it clear that the only way to be protected against secret unhappiness is to believe in Allah with a sincere heart. It will remind the readers that so long as people do not achieve this sincerity towards Allah, they cannot experience real happiness by any means whatsoever—and that the secret sorrows of this world may well turn to eternal torment in the Hereafter.
In a verse of the Qur'an, Allah tells us that those who find happiness and salvation are the faithful:

It is the believers who are successful. (Surat al-Muminun: 1)

Useful link:

THE MIRACLES OF THE QUR’AN (VIDEO)
http://www.harunyahya.com/m_video_detail.php?api_id=1267

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Answer 1

First I don't watch much TV or any of that, but I do feel happy when I am fulfilling my obligations to myself, my family, and my world. You really need to compress your question

Answer 2

If your currency is the reserve currency, it means that countries all over the world basically save in your curency, that is they keep your currency in their vaults (or accounts). The reason they do that is that they can then, if needed, just take the money from their valuts and buy stuff should their sources of income slow down. Nowadays, reserves are not cash and coins, but also government bonds that yield some interest while still being liquid. This is better than cash. So if your country runs a deficit in the balance of payments, (it spent more than it produced) then it can issue bonds and sell, knowing that other countries who have balance of payments surpluses (produced more than they spent) will buy the bonds in order to keep in their reserves. Now if you sometimes make deficits, sometimes surpluses, then the price of bonds would be stable, and no harm would come out of this exchange, just some sort of evening of cash flow. But in the case of the US, there is virtually permanent deficit - spend more than they produce. Hence isnteadof selling assets, they issue bonds. The more bonds are on the market, generally the price of bonds would drop. ANd the key here is that if the price of the bonds drops, the value of the other countries reserves also drops. Hence it is in their interest to keep buying the bonds (they can afford it due to surpluses of equivalent amount to US deficit - the stuff the US bought came from overseas) so the value of their reserves, their wealth does not drop. Hence the US can issue more and more bonds, effectively printing more money, knowing others will mop it up. Bottomline the other countries are caught. Of course the solution is for the other countries to diversify, start using the Euro, Swiss Franc... But for that to happen, it would make more sense if more of trade rtakes placein Euro, Swiss Franc -so that the reserves can directly be used without going through currency exchange and risking losing value. Apparently that's what Iraq was trying to do, ask for Euros for their oil rather than US$. But that's another story. Hope that helped.

Answer 3

Well, if you only see the morose, you fail to see a great deal. The majority of people are not sad; the majority are somewhere between happy and sad. People are not happy always, nor sad always. Everyone experiences a range of emotion, and some have the capacity to see only the dark or sad. Such people see "only sad" or "only bad".

Other people recognize that a normal range is healthy. Uni-polar emotion is a symbol of illness; mental illness. It's treated with psychiatric medications and therapy.

Religion may offer meaning, but it doesn't remove or heal mental illness. The trouble is that some people with mental illness turn to religion thinking it efficacious in healing psychiatric illness, but in many cases it increases delusional thought. That is not to say that religion itself is bad, but that it is better utilized by already healthy person.

Answer 4

I think most peoples lives are bogged down in routine.We adapt so quickly to everything,new house,new car,new job,etc.that the feeling of happiness is soon replaced by boredom.When we are ill,we wish to be back to normal,then,when we do,we take it for granted.That's life!

Answer 5

The majority of the people in my life have the Lord and live happy lives.

Answer 6

Because most people either live their life in the past or in anticipation for the future and don't know how to live their life in "the present moment".........Instead of being alive, people define themselves by life's circumstances.

Answer 7

People need the Lord. It is the only way to achieve true happiness.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

That's a long question. I think I have seen happy and unhappy people in all walks of life.

Answer 10

I need to start giving long, rambling answers with little punctuation and no apparent meaning or end in sight.
I've been far too concise for too long.