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| The Master Key |
Is there a key to happiness? I keep on pondering and
wondering on the thought. What is happiness? How do we achieve it? And more
importantly if we achieve it how do we know we have achieved it?
In the next few paragraphs, I am just going to give you the
food for your thoughts and nothing else. And may be raise more questions than
actually provide answers and just give you my 2 cents on the topic.
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| Sleeping Doggies on a Cold Night |
Let’s start with the key to happiness, personally for me;
the key to my happiness is doing something which takes me away from the usual.
Yupp... it’s that simple. I spend 10 - 12 hours at work doing the usual stuff,
boring stuff, don’t really have a choice... Do I? So when I want to be happy, I
do something different, something which I have not done before. A few weeks ago
I tried Bowling, and I loved it, it was something that I never indulged into
before and now that I think of it, those 2 hrs I spent in the bowling alley were
actually amazing as it took my mind off whatever I was thinking. I was like a
small kid who was just thrilled by that Strike and did a “High Five” after
almost every good shot. For you, it might be as simple as taking a walk. My
Funda... do something different and then see... Did it take your mind off off your
usuals... did it provide you with something fresh to think about? Did u feel relaxed?
We get so busy in our daily routines that we forget the unusuals. Try it. And
see if you can come up with what your unusuals and tell me if you have your key
to happiness.
Taking the question of "How Do I know When I am
Happy" a little further. Many of us are so busy in the run-of-the-mill
tasks that we don’t stop and see how that makes us feel. Have you ever thought
that a simple task of walking barefoot on a beach or cracking a joke and make
someone LOL makes you feel?? You might not have given it a thought at all,
however the next time you do something like this. Stop and Think. I am sure you
will get a different perspective. Think of the person next to you and he might
get inspired by you to do the same.
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| Service With a Smile |
Continuing on the "Stop-n-Think" strategy, I
sincerely believe in it. Whenever you are doing something unusual, stop
yourself after you complete the task and think. How does that make you feel, do
you feel a little sense of satisfaction, a sense of self achievement, or it
might just make you smile. Isn’t that happiness? And these things if done again
and again, and multiplied by their sheer number of occurrences, will make you a
happier person? Just look at the guy on the right. He is just giving bhuttas, on a cold winter day, and just look at his amazing smile, he looks happy from within. Again... Food for thought... and Open for discussion...
Happiness should be in oneself, it cannot be chased, or
should I say, should not be chased. IMHO, Happiness is accepting your flaws and
not worrying too much about what the other person thinks of you or your deeds.
There are million or zillions things that can be said about happiness, what
matters is, what makes you happy? What makes you click? What makes you bring
that million dollar smile on your face which can simply brighten up your day as
well as the day of people in your vicinity? Think about it...and then live it...
and...Very Importantly.. Stay Happy!! :-)
We say I love you to our partner, parents, cousins, friends
and many others and we say it so casually that it misses the mark many of the
times. Do we actually love them all? Do we actually mean it ? Are we thinking
about the actual feeling that “I Love You” will convey when its said just like
that. Food for thought. 
I believe that “I Like You” is much more powerful than
I love you. You might love your parents,
your partner, your cousins but think about it, do you really like them too..
and do you like them all, the same way you like that one person with whom you
spend most of your time. I am not even going into the relationships or
marriage. It’s just the matter of conveying your message clearly. 
