Need a long, meaningful ASL on happiness is the eternal quest of man
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We all want to be happy. Everybody wants to possess happiness. It is the aim and object of all human activities. Man’s quest for happiness has been there since times immemorial. But very few people possess it. Different people have different ideas and concepts about happiness. Most of the people are really ignorant about the nature of happiness and the ways by which it can be obtained. What is then happiness? How can it be achieved? Is it a reality or an illusion? How do happy people live, feel and behave? These are some of the basic questions often asked.
Many people mistakenly take pleasure for happiness and are mad after them. They run after pleasures and are ready to make any sacrifice to obtain them. For these people pleasure is the other name of happiness. But they are in illusion. Pleasures seek more pleasures and enjoyment, which ultimately lead to dissatisfaction, a mad rush for materialistic possessions and a sadless and cutthroat competition. Means of pleasure, convenience, luxury, comforts etc. cannot make a man happy. In that case the kings, princes, business tycoons, the rich and the wealthy of the world would have been the happiest persons. But the reality is quite different. People often grow rich by dishonest means. They deceive others, adopt dishonest means and resort to such other means, which are immoral, unfair and anti-social. Then, how can they be happy? They are always afraid of income tax raids of becoming poor and losing their wealth. Then why this saying, “Unhappy. lies the head that wears a crown.”
Wealth is just a means and not an end in itself. But people have started regarding money and wealth as an end. Money can buy things, comforts, convenience and services of other but never health, character or happiness. It is a mistaken idea that riches and wealth is a passport to happiness. Only the ignorant think that prosperous people are happy. On the contrary the rich are miserable. They are most careworn people and do not enjoy peace of mind, rest, sleep and contentment. There is no end to a wealthy person’s greed. He always wants more and more and it makes him most unhappy and misery.
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Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulations in combination with non-manual elements. Sign languages are full-fledged natural languages with their own grammar and lexicon. Sign languages are not universal and they are not mutually intelligible with each other, although there are also striking similarities among sign languages.
Linguists consider both spoken and signed communication to be types of natural language, meaning that both emerged through an abstract, protracted aging process and evolved over time without meticulous planning. Sign language should not be confused with body language, a type of nonverbal communication.
Wherever communities of deaf people exist, sign languages have developed as useful means of communication, and they form the core of local deaf cultures. Although signing is used primarily by the deaf and hard of hearing, it is also used by hearing individuals, such as those unable to physically speak, those who have trouble with spoken language due to a disability or condition (augmentative and alternative communication), or those with deaf family members, such as children of deaf adults.
It is unclear how many sign languages currently exist worldwide. Each country generally has its own native sign language, and some have more than one. The 2013 edition of Ethnologue lists 137 sign languages. Some sign languages have obtained some form of legal recognition.
Linguists distinguish natural sign languages from other systems that are precursors to them or derived from them, such as invented manual codes for spoken languages, home sign, "baby sign," and signs learned by non-human primates.