Chasing Happiness

What is happiness? Am I happy ? What should I do to be happy forever? In what way I can actually attain happiness. Does true Happiness exists? These are some of the questions that we all ask ourself.

No man is happy, who does not think himself so. A wise person says “Happiness at best, can be understood as a state of mind”. To be happy we do not need to look here and there. It is something that exists within all of us inside. If one really wants to be happy, it is necessary to abstain oneself from complaining about the past, or the present and the future. If one can’t overcome this habit, he/she ruins their past, present and the future. And this becomes the major reason for not being able to enjoy all three of them.

We ourself are the best source of happiness. What matters the most is not what matters to us, what matters is how we actually perceive the matters that happens to us.

To be very true I think happiness cannot be achieved through wordly comforts. We can only attain happiness if we over come all our desires and sorrows.

As well said “ Happiness is not the station you arrive at, but a manner one travelers”. Happiness is everything and above all. Who would not like to make his happiness eternal? But for that, man will have to give up running after transient goals and seek the eternal one. That is not easy in the face of wordly temptations.

For different people Happiness has different meanings. For me Happiness is liking what to do as well as doing what you like. It lies in finding something positive even in something negative. Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete happiness. One can be happy in his life, if one uses his capacities and capabilities to the greatest extent.

Aparana Chauhan

The Triumph of Risks

There are three caterpillars on the leaf of the tree. If one of them decided to jump off the leaf, onto the ground, how many caterpillars are left on the leaf?

The answer is THREE!

Shocked….
Thinking Why?

Simple that’s because caterpillar decided to jump! But it didn’t!

Don’t you think we are exactly the same as the caterpillar. Who decides to this, do that, make plans, but finally ends up doing nothing?

Be True to yourself, and most of you will find the answer YES!

In day to day life, we make out so many decisions. Some Hard ; Some easy.

If you think silently you will come to know that “Most mistakes are not made by wrong decisions”.

“But most mistakes are made because of the indecisions”.

We have to live with the consequences of our decisions and that is Risk !!

• To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
• To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
• To reach our to another is to risk involvement.
• To expose feelings is to risk exposing our true self.
• To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk the loss.
• To love is to risk not being loved in return.
• To live is to risk dying.
• To hope is to risk despair.
• To try is to risk failure

Bur risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does noting, has nothing, is nothing.

He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has fortified his freedom. Only a person who risks is free.

In the end, “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist is to open change; the realist adjusts the sails”.

Aparana Chauhan