'True happiness is living life with no regrets'

A recent study by American scientists suggests that 50,000 pounds (approximately Rs 36,00,000) can buy you all the joy you need. So we asked readers to share tips that help them rediscover happiness. Here are some responses we received, share yours!

• To aim for something and reach it just in time.
• Being able to spend time with your near and dear ones, namely family and friends.
• When you make your parents proud.
• Being able to make money, and put it to just use.
• When you know you don't regret something, even if it is the last day of your life.

-- Abhinav Gupta

In my opinion, money is something but not everything. Specially, in the Indian context, Rs 30 lakh/anum is not required to remain really happy.

I am well connected with the work of Mother Teresa in her Missionaries of Charity since the last 10 years. Here, I meet really poor and really rich people almost every day. The poor come here to get some food or clothes or medicines, shelter etc. The rich come here to shed their worries by donating anything out of their abundance.

To deal with the problems of poor is easIER. You give them food or you cloth them. Soon their hunger and nakedness goes. Very simple. But to deal with rich people is really very tough. You can't take out their deep-rooted worries about their posts, designations, family matters, drug addiction etc. And they never share the real cause of their anxiety.

I feel in the Indian context, earning Rs 30 lakh and getting worried for its accumulation year after year makes no sense to life. In fact, I have never seen any rich person bursting into laughter. They do not smile naturally. Always synthetic talks, synthetic laugh, synthetic cries, far away from reality.

Therefore, earning Rs 30 lakh and spending minimum Rs 15 lakh for the upliftment of your own brothers/sisters, relatives, friends, neighbours will definitely give you happiness.

-- Narendra Uppal

In my view happiness follows in the below mentioned points.

• Going to a movie or picnic with friends
• Staying with a joint family
• Spare at least two to three hours for your children
• Stop watching daily serials or negative side of the news
• Talk everyday of at least one postive point

-- Suk P

How much money a year would you say it would take to make you happy? Or do you draw happiness from other sources -- spending time with your family, giving your dog a cuddle or chowing down on a double cheese pizza?

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