Digital media expert Abhishek Agrawal has challenged youth not to lose focus on their life goals affirming that their ultimate return on investment should be happiness.
Agrawal, who is considered an authority in the digital media industry said he has made investments over the years, and has realized that it’s not just about building wealth and growing businesses but says that if you’re wealthy and miserable, your investments haven’t truly paid off.
Speaking at a youth forum, Agrawal reiterated that wealth is not a measure of happiness and informed the gathering that it doesn’t automatically mean you’re happy because you’re wealthy.
“Let’s paint a picture here; you keep buying things that you don’t care for just to show off to your friends or strangers online.” he queried.
According to Abhishek, “this speaks to a lack of happiness and fulfilment in what you’ve achieved. It is not wrong if you want to have the best of everything globally, but does it make you happy?”
He said the “The ultimate measure of success is the fulfilment and not money. You should love what you do enough that even if it doesn’t bring wealth, you are blissfully content to be doing it.”
Abhishek stresses the importance of a happy life over a wealthy life saying that “Not to say that wealth isn’t good to have, but don’t peg your life on materialism. Abhishek has also cited people who are stuck in jobs they can’t stand doing jobs they hate because of the money. Most people underuse their potential and drive their investments in triviality.”
Speaking further, Agrawal mentions the common assumption that pleasure is happiness while most people are lost in momentary pleasure and mistake that for happiness.
According to him, “pleasure is short-lived; you will feel relieved or even excited for a short while, and then it’ll go away, leaving a void that you’ll try to fill with more material items.”
He added that “happiness grants you the freedom to decide what you want to achieve each day. Small everyday things can bring you the contentment you dream of, and instead of dreaming, you should cease it.
The ultimate payoff that all your efforts in life can grant you is true happiness in what you’ve built, who you’ve become and where you’re going.”
