Owners of Happiness 02

This book is about happinessThomas Jefferson who said, "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government".Happiness is one of the dire needs of life. Everyone wants to be happy; unfortunately, the opposite is the case in the lives of many people all over the world. Happiness is a scarce commodity in the lives of both the great and the small, the rich and the poor; and as every other need of life, it ought to be an issue of concern. It is almost impossible to give an accurate statistics of people who died from lack of happiness. So many people have great challenges in their health traceable to the lack of peace and happiness. In the quest for true happiness, others have taken to all manner of vices leaving the society on the brink of fear and uncertainty. From one nation to another, you find people that live the wrong way, even against their will, all in an effort to find real pleasure and inner satisfaction.A great number of people are suffering across the globe as a result of the actions, inaction and reactions of people in the state of unhappiness. At present, there are more people who are unhappy in life than those who are truly happy. This is not a good situation because people who are grieved are very prone to doing things that are against spiritual and social orders, even things that are detrimental to their own existence and prosperity. Happiness makes good citizenry, so leaders ought to make it their goal. "Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good" said Walter Savage Landor. I believe, if our youths are truly happy, they will be good and responsible. This book, OWNERS OF HAPPINESS, is an effort to lead many people, especially our young people, to the path of happiness. I believe, if our young people are happy they will be more useful, productive and poised to contribute immensely to national goal attainment. It is vain to seek to eliminate youth-related anti-social behaviours when the issue of their happiness is grossly undermined. A government that seeks to reduce crimes should work hard to enhance the happiness of its citizens.