Elusive happiness

The pursuit of happiness is everything in life. Anything that is soothing to our eyes makes us happy. When Sachin Tendulkar hits a six or when the Indian team wins a major tournament, there is happiness all around.
God has given the gift of happiness to each and every living being. But in our fast-paced life, material pursuits have taken precedence over everything else. It has ensured that constant tension is a part of our daily lives; students are worried about getting high marks, entrepreneurs want to earn high profits and company executives are worried about promotions. In other words, we can say that rising competition has gobbled up our happiness.
Due to this trend, the present generation is not as happy as the previous one.
Many televisions channels and film companies are taking advantages of this situation. Suddenly, there is a great demand for comedy programmes, which are attracting a lot of viewers. Most of the comedy programmes like Comedy Circus and Series of Laughter Challenge are very popular and rank high on TRP ratings.
At present, many producers are trying to make sequels of their comedy programmes. All for the sake of bringing forth an elusive smile on the face on desperate viewers and raking in the moolah. So our pursuit of happiness has transformed into a crass hunt for mindless entertainment. But the irony is that the person who is standing in front of us and trying to entertain us is also into it for material gain. He wants to earn his bread and butter by entertaining us. The lines of American poet Amy Lowell describe the true meaning of happiness and are apt in this context.
We rarely feel it.
I would buy it, beg it, steal it,
Pay in coins of dripping blood
For this one transcendent good.