You know what comes to my mind when I just shoot the word 'happy?' I see this little boy laughing while he's letting himself loose, seeing the sky with a great scenic beauty around. Now, what would really make me happy? Perhaps, getting a few things in life would make me happy, now say these things:
- Having great health, lots of wealth and proud parents.
- The best girlfriend(s), or a spouse.
- The best of buddies.
Assumingly, I have all this things one day (going by ma records I might not) but I'm very good at imagining things for real, say I have it right now. Okay, I would be happy, but for how long. Obviously I would want to be happier. The parameters are met, that doesn't mean I would be happy forever. Say now, this would make me happy:
- A child
- A BMW 5 series or a Mercedes
- A sea facing bungalow at Bandra
I would get it and I would again shift my parameters and the life finds its reason to be unhappy about not having something.
The simple point I wish to put across is that the want for more never dies (human nature). But I guess I don’t want it to be a reason to make me dull. After having a great love story besides a tragic end of it; why do I think a greater love story and perhaps a more tragic end would make me happy?
Confession: not having someone to love makes me sad sometimes.
Going to college without a bike or a car under my ass makes me sad! Having a cell phone which dies out even after being fully charged twice a day really frustrates me.
Not having things makes me unhappy. That happens with everyone I guess, doesn’t it?
EUREKA!!!
Something majestic happened with me the other day. No matter how tired I'm, my mind never gets tired of coming up with something that makes me think & forget that I have to sleep and break the monotony of getting up at 10.35 ( 5 minutes of extra sleep after my mom yells at 10.30). I slept with the above mentioned thoughts and I got a dream...
Some person whom I consider my idol in life was online at the other end and we were chatting. (The person’s identity is not revealed to avoid copyright issues)
Here's it:
XXX: Dude, hows u? hows life?
dodiabhavesh13_30: Nuin yaar, juss getting bored in here, u say???
XXX: I'm great! Am happy having fun. Having a rocking time!!
(Other adjectives are usual online words for me, but the use of the word Happy was new to the yahoo online fraternity besides the fact that there was not one adjective that I felt was applicable to his life)
dodiabhavesh13_30: what’s happened? I mean did u get a Vertu phone o wat that u so badly wanted???
XXX: No yaar mad o wat?
dodiabhavesh13_30: so????
XXX: I just realized that even if someone gives me the phone today, I guess I wouldn't be happy for much longer. U knew why because I have it and now I will have to move on to something else!
dodiabhavesh13_30: hmmm!!!(Trying to find sense)
XXX: I want to be happy with the fact that I'm doing something to get that. Ya if I would have been doing nothing abt it and u would’ve asked me this; my answer might have been different. But hey am happy and enjoying!!! U say hows u? hows life?
(I didn’t reply for a good 5minutes I guess...)
XXX: BUZZ!!!
After waiting for 10seconds to buzz again
XXX: BUZZ!!!
dodiabhavesh13_30: I'm happy
dodiabhavesh13_30 has signed out
Its 10.35! The next morning...that chat still spinning my mind. I skipped my breakfast, sipped in some tea; I left for a place I visit when I’m not feeling good along with a diary and a pen.
Jotted down things that would make me happy. Out of the 5things I was actually working for 3 and half things that would make me happy.
(Half because I don’t know whether orkutting helps getting you good looking gals)
3 is to 2!! More reasons to be happy. The whole idea is to look back a little and see how good are you trying to be happy? Are you concentrating on being happy or on being sad?
Trust me I'm trying, trust me you're trying, the whole world is trying to be happy. Just that we are seeing our happiness beyond the achievements. I guess the happiness is in the process!
And then even if you don’t get what you've wanted. You wouldn’t be sad, because something that makes u happy, you won’t mind doing again! You might well try harder and achieve something more than what you were set out for. And after you get it, the human nature says MORE
No problems,
Bigger want, bigger the process and eventually bigger the happiness!!!
The fact that we're doing things to make our life better is a good enough reason to be happy. A line in a very famous movie Bawarchi where Mr. Rajesh Khanna said, "It’s so simple to be happy, but so difficult to be simple" It’s this journey of accomplishing the things that must be enjoyed!! Don’t complicate your happiness, make it simpler! It’s really not that difficult...
May be someday when this person adds you up on Yahoo! He might ask u this,
dodiabhavesh13_30: Hey what’s up? Hows U? Hows life?
Don't worry Be Happy!!!
- Bhavesh Dodia
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