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The Endless Pursuit of Happiness: The Path of Personal Desires.

This is the path most people pursue. These desires are to be rich, to have the best house, to go on the best vacation, to enjoy best food and to have great family and friends. This path is very competitive and full of exuberances and disappointments. Once reaching goals, just to reset them to a higher level from there. Thus, the pursuit of happiness is unending exhaustive journey through an ocean with no shore in sight.

The Unrecognized Revolutionaries: Walking the Path of Honor.

This is a path a few people pursue. They live their life to be respected by their peers in the society. They desire recognition for their contributions to the society at large. Farmers, Teacher, Doctors, Leaders, Engineers, Lawyers and other contributors to society, belong to this group. Though each of these professions provide ample opportunities to work for selfish gains, a few of them walking this path of honor staying true to the high morals and responsibilities of their profession. Though working for honor, most of them go unrecognized and unappreciated and the honor they are seeking becomes elusive. Most of them remain unappreciated and unrecognized revolutionaries unable to change the system. Thus, the pursuit of honor does not lead to attaining the goal for majority of them.

Virtuous Living: The Path to Lasting Happiness.

This is the least used path for attaining happiness, though it is the best way to get there. In this discipline, one will adhere every action they do in line with the virtues that are natural to them. There are no specific examples to quote, and this path is available to all human beings. Our parents and teachers in childhood will teach us many virtues on how to lead our life. When one does action based on what is good of society and not for personal gains, such virtual living is free from approvals from others and will always be joyful because it maximizes the goodness.