Anand - Ode to Joy

'' Babu Moshai, life and death are games we play. Whatever happens here, you must leave me and face life as I would have.''

Every once in a while we transcend into our mortal demeanor and get intertwined into cobwebs that we are unable to free ourselves of ...that is when we look ... outside of us ... look around and notice if we are the ones who are acting ordinary or if people are acting funny...
When our desires outplay our wants and we start thronging on valuables to provide us happiness ..then ..these...these benefits make us venerable.
The life that we are bestowed with is really funny and unpredictable ... and just when we think we have decoded the mysteries ... is when we really get befuddled by it all the more.Since the advent of technology we've been making steadfast progress each day ..we've been venturing into unforeseen terrains and coming out with means to make our lives more simpler and more easy and simply put ---- to be happy..satiated ..radiated; despite the complexities that all of it present we somehow believe we're traversing towards happiness,migrating from the shallow mindsets we vouch for technology doing wonders for something that resides within us...a really scary thought...
Deconstructing all our endeavors we undertake. . .we'd realise . .its all towards ..that one fulfillment. . towards quenching that ignominious desire of freedom from suffering. We all want to succeed but not everyone is ready for the grind that makes us ready for that sort of appreciation...
Most of the times ..i wake up thinking that this day of mine should be perfect ...and i try and harness my actions in such a way they complement my mindset . . . sometimes it works out . . .sometimes it doesn't. So what does that mean ..?
It means nothing more than the fact that life is an everyday struggle ..and in order for us to lead we must not only give our best ...but keep bettering our best from time to time....as someone at the top of his game would say ..but then again , is doing all of this easy ? what happens if i suddenly meet failure ..well when we strive for victory than defeat should be out of question ...but does it happen that way...No...!!! Just doesn't happen that way ...so what does that leave us with ..it leaves with an opportunity .. a chance may have gone by but what of the one that's still in the offing ..whats done is done. . .whats lost is probably gone but how would you want to sustain that defeat with you....

But it leaves a thought that is big and strong,
With a wish that is kind and true.

Happiness . . Joy is often correlated with the presence of some favorable occasion or event ... something that comes rarely and lasts momentarily. But the question arises is that something that is basis of all or most of our actions . . Why would we want to do that..?
Why would we want to be happy in parts ..or on occasions ...?
Why would we do that for something that's is exclusive to our species..?

An answer could be that different things make different people happy .. and not everyone can be happy then at the very same time because some of those wishes might just be contradiction of each others . . .whatever may be the reason the fact that I'm trying to iterate is that we are consciously or sub-consciously finding ourselves dependent on things and object to fetch us that much needed smile. . . And assuming for a moment what they give is happiness indeed, we'd find more than it being temporary or fickle . . . its an instant satiation of desire that stems from the wants and slowly moves towards becoming a need and finally a happiness bringing object . . .This is where more often than not we go wrong . . i know that not always life gives us an apparent reason to be happy but then the same goes for trials and moments of agony as well . . . students study for a year and get evaluated once or twice in a year . . . employees perform throughout the year . . . and all that yrs. of efforts accumulates to a progression. Now i don't intend to debate over the system or anything but just say that fact that the balance is always there . . we just fail to acknowledge its presence.

A Positive effect study shows that the following things . . help us most in becoming happier.

Activities Positive effect

	Intimate relations	5.10
	Socializing	4.59
	Relaxing	4.42
	Pray/Worship/Meditate	4.35
	Eating	4.34
	Exercising	4.31
	Watching TV	4.19
	Shopping	3.95
	Preparing food	3.93
	On the phone	3.92
	Philosophers observe that short-term gratification, while briefly generating happiness, often requires a trade-off with negative repercussions in the long run. Examples of this could be said to include developing technology and equipment that makes life easier but over time ends up harming the environment, causing illness or wasting financial or other resources. Various branches of philosophy, as well as some religious movements, suggest that "true" happiness only exists if it has no long-term detrimental effects Everything said and done we acknowledge it less and pain and misery more because perhaps most of us are expecting that from our own lives and others .. maybe circumstances have bended reality to such an extent that it appears as a falsification or a gray scale . Happiness resides in the heart yet it becomes apparent in our gestures and actions and affects them so much so that it has a direct correlation with its fulfillment. A happy person may or may not be a contented one ... a person can be happy though on most occasions with what he holds because the visions that elude him often set in pressure to outperform which again in few cases can act as a driving force which implicitly leads to Happiness ... People believe we should be happy for others around us .. who care , for our family , friends , because its God's saying .. and for other such reasons but until the time we understand for ourselves as to why should we choose happiness we wouldn't really be able to achieve it for good . Lets face it , things .. situations don't really change just because we are happy but yes inevitably we change when we realise ' Come What May ' I'm going to face it head on and with that sheer belief we are able to break on through to the other side ... I remember being told very early in my childhood that ' We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all . . . ' .. its just there .. waiting for you to come and conquer it . Whisper words that carry power In the misty midnight hour Speak the things you wish to change Will your words to rearrange Raise your will let your power flow Whisper softly....... then let go Let me end by saying that we all have it within it us . . . its right there lurking behind every gesture of pain and tear . . . As long as we can think it we can do it . . . and a smile , it only helps in looking at the light side of life , the overshadowed side , that as good a shield from pressure as any other intoxicant . . . Spread the Smile . . . people don't notice but its the world's most reciprocated emotion . . . and Beware : Its Infectious ... :)