In Search of Happiness: An Autobiography

By Alok Kumar Gupta

“In Search of Happiness” is the collection of incidents and situations which happened in author's way to attain happiness. The world has forgotten off the real happiness and they are busy in pretending others that they are happy which is hazardous for our society because if a person is unhappy but pretending to be happy, it’ll take him/her into depression and then to the extreme level of ruination. This book will help people to learn to be happy because the problems, author faced in his life, are the common problems of everyone’s life and everyone can get rid of them by following his way of attaining happiness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alok Kumar Gupta
• Release date: Jun 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9789354579301

Alok Kumar Gupta

Alok Kumar Gupta is an Indian Author, Blogger and Stock Trader. "Forty Five Days' Love Story" is his first book/novel which was first published on 17 July 2017. Alok loves to write on social and national issues. Alok also writes on those topics which are harmful or helpful for Humanity, in order to help eliminate negativity from the society, country and world. You can read his articles on his blog, named "Alok - An Illumination".

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In Search of Happiness

An Autobiography

By: Alok Kumar Gupta

First Published: 01 June 2021

This Edition is published on 01 June 2021 through self-publishing on kdp.amazon.com and Pothi.com.

ISBN: 978-93-5457-930-1

Copyright © [Alok Kumar Gupta]

This book is an autobiography and purely based on writer’s own life. It’s resemblance to anyone else, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Dear Reader,

Thank you for picking up this book.

This is my second published book. My first book is Forty Five Days’ Love Story which was published in 2017 and was a work of fiction. In Search of Happiness is based on my own life. I named it In Search of Happiness because attaining happiness has always been the goal of my life. In this book, you’ll read about my journey from college life till locked-down life. You’ll also read the ways to stay happy in all the situations. I started working on it long ago but got a chance to complete it during nationwide lock-down in rise of COVID-19. I am thankful to everyone who has been a part of my life, including my wife Shashi Kumari, and parents Mr. Ram Chandra Gupta and Mrs. Geeta Gupta.

This book talks about the reasons of sadness in the life of students, working professionals and common men because all these phases of my life have been described in it. It also talks about the ways to eliminate those reasons of sadness. You’ll also read about the life of a homeless person as that was also a phase of my life. You can read it as a novel, biography or a self-help book because it can be classified as any of them. It is a novel because it has a story of a person who has been homeless, foodless and trying to build a middle-class lifestyle for him. It is an autobiography because it is my life-story. It is a self-help book because it helps you to attain happiness in life. Read it as entertainment story or as self-help book but don’t forget to share your feedback about it. Also please recommend this book to your friends and acquaintances to help them to attain happiness and me to have more readers.

Enjoy Reading!

Prologue

In Search of Happiness is the collection of those incidents of my life which had happened in my way to attain happiness. It is a collection of many situations of grief and ways to eliminate them. It talks about many habits which may help you to attain happiness in life. When I looked back at my own life, I learnt that no-one except me knows my likes, dislikes, values, struggles and willpower, etc. I also learnt that I did everything in order to have a happy life and then I realized that the ways which helped me to attain happiness might help others too, and that’s why I thought to pen them down.

The world has forgotten of the real happiness and they are busy in pretending others that they are happy which is hazardous for our society because if a person is unhappy but pretending to be happy, it’ll take him/her into depression and then to the extreme level of ruination. I want to help people to learn to be happy and I am sure that my life story would help them because the problems, I faced in my life, are the common problems of everyone’s life and everyone can get rid of them by following my way of attaining happiness.

I struggled at few points in my life but remained a lazy person. I worked hard whenever required but also wasted a lot of time in over-sleeping, over-thinking and watching TV etc., when things started going well. I earned enough for my survival but I slipped every time when tried to take next step towards success. People around me liked me and have been very good to me but when I needed someone’s support, no-one was there. Most of the common people are unhappy due to these habits & situations and whenever they take any step to get rid of them but fail, they regret of their decision and step back which is the biggest mistake they make. Whereas they should try to find out the reason of failure, eliminate that and move on, instead of regretting and stepping back; like I did. If you have decided to do something, you should be confident on your decision. Failure doesn't mean that your decision was wrong and you should not take any decision in life but it only means that you missed on something, find that out and move on. My life showed me a lot of peaks and valleys but I never regret of them because they were the results of my own decisions and I don't worry if I make mistake; I just try to correct the mistake and move forward. Let me take you through my life, to show the path I followed in order to attain happiness.

Life-Story

Initially I was an unhappy person. I was also a very shy and obedient kid. I always tried to find ways to eliminate grief from my life but I couldn’t; because I didn’t know the exact reason of my sadness. Slowly and gradually, I started realizing that my thoughts and decisions didn’t match with that of my parents & siblings and were becoming the reason of my unhappy life. I, therefore, stopped discussing my views and wishes with them. I also started becoming disobedient to them but remained a shy person. Though I had stopped obeying them but never denied them on their face, for anything. I also didn’t let them feel that I didn’t agree with them.

When I was in School, I liked singing and thought that I was a great singer. I used to sing a lot at home but my family members could not sense my interest towards music, and I also did not have courage to tell them about my passion because I, perhaps, knew that they would not support me to fulfill this dream of mine. Then I started writing songs along with my studies thinking that someday I would release my own music album. Days passed and I realized that I had to build my desired career by my own efforts without any family support. Though I wanted to fulfill my dreams in a planned way but when I started giving most of my time to help my father in his business, I could not focus on my studies because I was not that good student who could work along with studies. I was not a person who could study on street lights or who could work entire day and study at night. I wanted to study in royal style with all facilities. I wanted an effortless life. I wanted enough time to study, sing and to enjoy my student life but that remained a dream for me. My percentage started going down and I, myself, wasn’t satisfied with them. I realized that I would neither be able to complete my studies nor I would be able to learn music that way. I, therefore, decided to go to Mumbai and left home at the age of seventeen. Though I didn’t know where Mumbai was, but I still went to railway station and boarded a train aligned to go to Mumbai, thinking that Happiness would be waiting for me in Mumbai. Many stations passed, many hours passed, even entire night passed but train did not reach Mumbai. In the morning, I asked another passenger,

Hello uncle, when will it reach Mumbai?

Not before the midnight, He replied. I was shocked to hear that as I didn’t know how far Mumbai was.

Are you going for the first time? he asked. I nodded in agreement.

Go and sleep on a berth! We have long way to go, he said.

I sat on a berth and after waiting for more than 24 hours, I