‘Milieu’ — the social environment, social context or sociocultural context, refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which one lives. It holds the culture that the individual was brought up, educated or lives in and others with whom he/she may interact. In short it is the immediate external environment as far as the individual is concerned. It is in this external environment that we keep working on, hoping to attain inner peace and happiness. However, we realise that it seldom works this way. The reason being that, ‘Happiness’ is a human paradigm, an abstract idea with no equivalent in actual human experience. Positive and negative marks do reside in the brain, but sustained happiness has no biological basis.
Happiness is the outcome of your actions, physical or mental. It is worth remembering then, that we are not designed to be consistently happy.
Brazilian poet Vinicius de....
