Today, I want to take a moment out of your life and make you recall when was the last time you were free from all the hessels of life or rather happy by all means. When was the last time you played ‘Antakshari’ and sang out your emotions.?Don’t bother your busy head anymore, the answer would come as, “I don’t remember exactly.”
For all of us, Life is a Race! And we have to make it LARGE!
This competitive age has made all of us mad bulls, where all we know is that we must win and run forward in life by hook or by crook. We run after the sound of money, and we even don’t know what this race is all about.
Is it being everything that we are currently not? Or multiplying the cash in our bank accounts? Having a sexy woman or man in life? Driving a stylish care? Or living in a luxurious house?
Were you happy the last time during school days? A big NO!
Remember the pressure of overloaded homework or scoring the passing marks were streessful for a childish mind then. College days were in a race to join a big company or a much better institution. And after joining a reputed company, we are still worried souls about what roles and responsibilities we should get and how well should we get paid, which we are not presently.
We are basically strugglers among a million strugglers. We have forgotten to laugh and we die a thousand deaths of fear and failure. We have surrendered to our own greed. We live because we are given the life, and we can hardly share this dilema to anyone, since everyone around us has the same story. You never sound thrilled on hearing from your dear ones, because you are in an important meeting. You promised to call back and never did as your schedule didn’t permit to. Very few ocassions you leave office before the sunset, and you miss the joy of family dinner. Mostly, you forget your mother’s medicins to bring home that the doctor prescribed almost a week back. And you hardly know how much pain your father has gone through while recovering his leg injury.
We are all screwed anyway. Pissed off. Someone’s boss is kicking ass, and someone’s licking ass.
We really worry about that increasing body fat at a rocket speed, and that rusting relations with our love who was found after a long war of mental, physical and economic disturbances. But, we do forget the most important objective of all these efforts – “To be Happy”, “To be Yourself”.
There is no fixed formula or no fixed parameter for happiness. And unfortunately, life doesn’t show signboards indicating which direction to go to be happy.
Cut this crap! Take a break! Don’t take a step, but walk the full distance instead to feel the change.
Involve yourself into the things which really make you happy. Don’t ask for assistance, because you are the best judge of your happiness. Decide your smiling factors and indulge into it. May be you go home early and sit with your parents to listen to them when they need you the most. Take out your old cricket bat and club some sixes on your favourite ground. Go to the old age home and wipe out some tears. Educate some children, or listen to the troubles of who suffered the pain.
I don’t mean the social service. Because I very well know – we need to eat before we feed. But this can help atleast to the realisation of eternal happiness, which we have lost within, somewhere, don’t know when…may be the undefined one.
Gift some time to yourself, to know you well, to make yourself realize what you want, what you deserve and what you have.
And then ask yourself – “Have I Made It Large…?”
Adieu!
