Happ(Y)ness??

                   

While browsing, my sister accidentally stumbled upon this blog. This pic kept me hooked for quite a long time and then i decided to post it . The message was so simple. A simple fact that we are responsible for our happiness and somehow we tend to place our happiness in other people's hands!! If you are not happy, you can do something more than cribbing and complaining.

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“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”               

                                                                                                             -- Einstein

A Spring-summer's night dream

"....I was standing at a cross road, as i just had passed through a rough patch. For awhile, the days now, seem to be empty of life; very sultry, hot and dry aaah.. Just like the summer outside. 
The days galloped by and kept me busy and worried. Lots of things lingered around adding to the heat and myself being baked amidst these, though not into a nice cake, but a dark charred lump. The infamous yet essential mirage - "Appraisals", the summer heat, the Carlton mishap, scintillating sexual encounters of Swami had also added to the heat and life seemed nothing more than an empty dusty road to me.


Filling excel sheets that never made any sense to my senseless mind, drowned in the calls with unconventionally idiotic people, justifying myself convincingly to the most unconvincing and stingy manager for the impossible thing-'Hike', preparing material for an audience who call it immaterial, reading through, yet not understanding the unfathomed fathoms of the subject, Blocking a huge amount of money to convince myself that i saved few pennies by filing tax, struggling to master the mysterious tax slabs and right investment and the bike odyssey to office everyday seems to have made me numb towards things around. I looked at myself, and  suddenly realize that somewhere in these few days had lost my instincts to observe and appreciate the world around me. 
A rendezvous with the mirror, I looked an alien to myself. Leaving so many a things behind i was walking, walking the mile along the most deserted road. There seemed to be no sign of life and the air breathed envy and death around. No sign of hope and all the trees around were dead dry, as if they were no more young and to be called fossils... it was suffocating and jus then i saw... it was walking towards me... it was......."


Screeeeeeeeeeeeecchhhhhhhh!!! Thuddddddd!!! and i woke up with a start. A chill had run through my spine even in the sultry summer night. It was a Midsummer's Night mare to me and i woke up to realise that it was 9 am on a fine lazy Saturday morning.


Shaken by the clutter of the reality and wildest imaginations i popped out in my shorts to take a walk. I started feeling good, the air breathed life, and to my surprise i noticed the change. The old withered leaves were no longer there, the fresh green leaves ornated the landscape. The street was painted yellow,bright and beautiful. the flowers had laid a 'red-carpet' on the streets. I felt in my weirdest thoughts that maybe mama nature had a great week and had shopped brand new clothing in yellow and green as if there was a 50% sale. Stupendous thought though. The vibrancy around filled a life and in my most materialistic ways and instincts of a software guy, i glanced to the calendar to find UGADI was just few days away and that spring had arrived. 

“We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.”                                                             --- Calvin and hobbes
                     
May be in the rush of our lives, we forget to admire beauty and live, we merely exist. Lets shed our schedules and take some time off the comp and admire the beauty. Enough of reading this too, go out, the world is a wonderful place. All you need is a little time, silent eyes and heart to admire it. Everyone has it. Maybe this is what everyone around us goes through. 


Uncomplicate....  Break free...!!!
Its your life... go live it up !!!


PS: The pic was taken right in front of my house
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