--- title: World is mine date: 2009-06-21T06:05:58Z modified: 2009-06-21T06:20:51Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/world-is-mine/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 729 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/happiness.jpg" author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2009-06-21T06:20:51Z tags: - Life Poems --- ![happiness](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/happiness-300x199.jpg "happiness") on my way back from the cemetry, crying and feeling desolate, i guess that’s when it began; haunting me to this day, i [curse](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/curse.md) myself and wonder why i stopped when others did not; through the wind and the [rain](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/a-rose-in-the-rain.md), in a [world](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/patience-is-a-girl-who-inherited-the-world.md) that i long to be in, day in and day out, used and thrown away; if only we could make [a life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/a-life.md) of what we [dream](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/its-just-like-a-dream.md), there would be no heaven and no need for (a separate) hell; a fragile soul caught in the hands of time dying a little everyday i know a change is gonna come there’s a place i am going to as i keep chiseling away to carve out a life that is mine i find that place is right here **within me**; – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – this one is riddled with multiple meanings. each stanza can and does mean a lot of things. i started writing this with 2 central themes, but it does extend to a whole lot of various other things. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for [the meaning of life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-meaning-of-life.md). – Albert Camus Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. [If you love](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/if-you-find-love.md) what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient. – Aristotle Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. – Denis Waitley The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. – James Oppenheim