Happy and Happiness

The novice, standing by the door was looking at everything with great amazement and wonder. The people in the room were simple people. It was not like that the room was filled with rock stars or sportsmen. Like I said earlier, the room had normal people leisuring and acting all normal. But the thing was that the novice had never seen normal. He knew no happy faces. For him a world where being happy is a possibility does not exist. There was no planet where smiling people lived. Even if there was one, he was not aware of it.

But the people who were laughing, the object of his amazement, were they really happy? The answer varied but all of them were trying to be happy. Nobody can ever be happy without trying. It requires a lot of practice and hard work to stay happy. Staying happy is not some involuntary action. You cannot observe happiness, you can only feel it.

The novice was fooled by the sight like most of us; who think that they are happy but sorrow nests in them. The mirage that the happiness is, is a web that entangles the strongest of the strong, it fools the wisest of the wise.

If you are fortunate, it comes to you and if you are not that lucky then you have to walk to it. The distance may vary, sometimes few steps and sometimes a journey needing you to crawl through waters full of crocodiles, land that is mined and air that is un-breathable.

But the pursuit of happiness is a stimulant that is at par with father’s tap on your shoulder and a mother’s prayer for you to succeed.

The reality is that there is no thing called happiness in this world. The reality of happiness is that when the pain is bearable and sufferable it can be called happiness and if it is otherwise than it is the opposite of happiness.  So, if you want to stay happy make sufferings of others and yours sufferable.