Cheering in the Moments
Yesterday evening, we were planning to have an iftar party at the office. In the menu, we included everything from lots of samosas, pakoras, kachoris to jalebi, malai boti, and chicken karahi. It was a debate with proper arguments whether to have 12 or 15 naans for 8 people. We put lots of soft drink on the table however as soon as Roza opened, few bites of food and few sips of water made us full.
This is how life is. You look for more and more in the worldly domain and move on to the next desire.
You desire a house and spend many years building the perfect one, the first day is great, the second day is good, the third day in the house is average and then it’s routine. Now you are working for another desire.
We first worry about getting married, then about children, then we worry about the happiness of children, later we want children to get married, and then we want to be grandparents.
If we keep running behind desires, we can never be happy. Happiness will always be a remote thing, which lies in goals and not us. But if we see happiness as a process then we can have it now.
You wake up early and gym that is Happiness regardless you lose weight or not because now you are not concerned about what you are getting but you care more about what you are becoming in the process.
We must choose our priorities carefully, making sure this-worldly materialism doesn’t fool us. Making sure, we are running behind the long term of happiness rather than quick fixes to be happy. This world is like a trap. It makes you think that happiness is inside the shopping mall and credit cards.
Factually, true happiness does not belong to rich people only. It can be found within every human being regardless of how much bank balance he or she has:
Happiness is reading a nice book
Happiness is playing with a child
Happiness is doing yoga
Happiness is smiling yourself in the mirror and being confident about how you look
Happiness is holding the hands of your lover and looking into their eye with excitement
Happiness is having your siblings around
Happiness is helping someone in need
Happiness is clicking a picture
Happiness is complimenting someone
Happiness is teaching someone how to live life
Happiness does not have one single form. Happiness is like a puzzle. It comes in bits and pieces of everyday life.
I don’t need to get a car or a big house to be happy. I can if I want but I am really happy right now because happiness is who I am. Happiness is my state, not my possession. Happiness is not traded in the market. Happiness is just being you.
I pray that may you all get to enjoy small moments of life and be happy.
