“The ideals which have lighted my way and time after time have given me the energy to face life have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth.” (1930) – Albert Einstein.

Many people want many different things: power, money, recognition … among others. Now that University is over, choosing what is important to me is somewhat imperative as it will shape what I will do in the days and maybe years to come. Choosing is a funny word here because I think I have already chosen, many times. After all, psychologists say that a personality is nearly fully formed by age of 14, after which we don’t change, at least drastically. I always knew what I wanted the most, but because it’s not exactly what others want, what I “should” want, or what I want some of the times, as opposed to all the times, it’s good to pause and think of what is really important to me.

I want happiness, but what is it? For all of us it is something different, most often something that we don’t have enough of. In my opinion, Einstein got it nailed down nearly a hundred years ago.

In today’s society everyone is so self-centered (study confirms) and so busy that we miss the most simple things in life. Such simple gestures as “thank you” and “you’re welcome” are fading out; we are moving too fast to notice what’s around us, missing all the simple beauty that life has to offer. Trying to get more and more of “stuff”, greed eventually leads the society to lying and cheating, just so we could have more than a guy next door.

Some folks are okay with what I just said, it’s just a matter of life they’d say – either you get the “stuff” or somebody else will. After all, natural selection doesn’t help either – women tend to like men with more capital, as if that really had any correlation with their future happiness.

If you ask me though, that’s not a good way to go about it. What I want is the simple Kindness, Truth, and Beauty that Einstein had mentioned (and is engraved on his monument in Princeton btw). And now, to the next question “How?”….