Material success and career advancement need not necessarily bring happiness. Genuine happiness radiates from the core of one’s heart. It implies that one should discover it at the core of one’s heart. Possessions and achievements have little to do with real contentment. They remain at the superficial level of existence. They boost the ego. Pip, Charles Dickens’ protagonist in the novel Great Expectations (1861), is an example of this great lesson in happiness. Pip is born in a poor family in the English countryside and he soon loses his parents. His sister, married to Joe, looks after Pip. Joe becomes Pip’s foster father. As a young boy Pip is sent to the house of Miss Havisham to carry out certain works and he is enchanted by the beauty of Estella whom he meets there. Miss Havisham is an eccentric woman who has c called a halt on her life because the man whom she had loved ditcher her. She continues to wear her bridal dress, has stopped all the clocks in the h
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