This article is originally written for the ManipalBlog under my weekly column 'Serenade of My City'. It appears here. Visit this site for wonderful articles.
This week I’m singing the Serenade of Happiness and new-found joy.
Of meeting old friends, of making new friends, of bonding, of
friendships, of love.
Yes, that’s right! Good things happen when you are ready to accept
that it’s OK to be happy in life. I just read a teaching by Sri Sri
Ravishankar today. The gist of which is that we always seem
to realize reality only when we are sad or drowned in any negative
emotions. But it’s just an illusion because happiness is what it is to
feel real. Everything else is a fake. Wanting to be happy is our natural instinct. Everything we do is for being happy.
But the problem is that instead of making happiness a journey, we make it our destination. That’s where all of us go wrong. Happiness is in the moment. Not in
the past, nor in the future, but in the present. If we concentrate on
making our present happy, our past would have been happy and so would be
our future, yes?
I realized our minds are somehow tuned these days to a fear of being
happy. When we are happy for a sufficient period and nothing goes wrong,
a fear rises about how everything can be so smooth. We begin worrying
for the bad that is around the corner, and in the process of worrying,
we really end up facing the worst which is nothing but the result of our
own insecurity.
We kill the happiness that we achieved. We become sad and then start
looking for happiness again. Running around in circles all the time. It’s only when we accept the fact that happiness is a journey that we learn to really live in the moment and avoid worries.
Just look at us! Rumors of the world ending in another 10 days is out
in the air and here we are, still planning for the far future. How can we be so sure of an unseen future when we can’t be sure about the present that we can see, we can feel, we can live!
Our minds seem to have a mind of their own!!! So complicated, so twisted! But when things happen, when you see signs
of clarity, it gets a little simplified, a little untwisted. Thoughts
seem to fall in the right place and we get a fresh insight into a stale
life. In one of the older posts in the SOMC,
I mentioned shifting to a new place and had wondered what this change
has in store for me! Turns out everything surely happens for a reason.
I’ve made such good friends already and it couldn’t get any better.I
feel God must have thought, “OK, these people have gone through the
same things in life. Let me put them together, so they realize they are
not alone in this!”
Good things happen to good people they say. But I think good things happen to everyone who’s ready to receive it and own it. I
have welcomed yet another chapter of my life with wide open arms. I
have prepared myself to embrace every boon and bane it might come with
and deal with it as it comes. I have tuned the channel of my life to the serenade of blissful happiness and unlimited joy. Have you?
This article is originally written for the ManipalBlog under my weekly column 'Serenade of My City'. It appears here. Visit this site for wonderful articles.
Hi Pranita,
ReplyDeleteVery valid post. Happiness is just like a station/junction during a train journey. It comes for some time and then goes away, however, that's a part of life. We should accept it and move forward rather than lamenting the station which just went by.
Keep posting :)
Regards
Jay
http://road-to-sanitarium.blogspot.in/