Deciphering Happiness

Fatigued birds are flying back to their nests. Luminous sun becomes pallid. It is time for cowboys to bring their herds back to the cowsheds. City dwellers have spent another busy day. The dusk-time-twilight is close to end. The west sky is still beaming orange light, but the east sky is embracing darkness gradually. Within a while the world here will turn to a new look—dark affection of night will sweep over the nature. Abiding by the law of nature and keeping pace with regular human activities life is marching forward. Even if there is no so many varieties and zests, life is still enjoyable with its own mess and peace occurring every single moment. Silence and solitude sometimes turn as most trusted companions! Genuinely enjoying loneliness is a great respite for self-reflection. Sometimes monotony entangles and loneliness bites venomously, but they don’t last long. Habituating to extract pleasure from loneliness works as tonic. And this is what is important to spend time alone without any uproar of the clamorous world outside.

Unexpected and uncomfortable situation tests people’s inner instincts; and acing insuperable challenge assists to intensify mental toughness. Getting angry every now and then is very easy, but controlling anger and responding prudently make the difference. Avoiding responsibility and putting blame on others is the lousy attitude not to improve circumstance, hence repeating the same mistake again in future. Self-esteem never grows out of vacuum—it requires rigorous retrospection, rare mindset of practicing regular self-criticism and thorough awareness of someone’s duty and responsibility. Being tolerant and accommodating to differences, and of courses a little bit of compromising and sacrificing attitude can change everything dramatically. Similarly, a little bit of liberal mindset can make the walk of life less difficult to undertake. Regrettably, we are prone to forget these superb traits, and that is when personal and social life become very troublesome. At some point of time, change becomes inevitable in life to make it smoother and free from daily hurdles that the world ejects towards us. Change for good should be welcomed in life. Rigidity and stubbornness often lag people behind and make some adorable relationships acrimonious. A malleable mindset should be possessed to understand the surroundings better. It’s not necessary that everything will work or behave according to our will. If anything happens that starkly contrasts our expectation, during that time the appropriate way should we react likely to shape our character and happiness critically. It’s a matter of choice. Adjustment and empathy can make the world a better place to live, and trail back a praiseworthy mark on other people’s life even if someday we all have to leave the world forever.  

World is beautiful because unexpected thing happens in life now and again. We fall in love with earthly matters because of the diversified things we often experience in long peregrination of life. The world would become prosaic had we not gone through those unexpected and diversified events and met people with various characteristics. Even the sky changes its instinctive azure when needed. Rainbow is fascinating and lovely to watch owing to the seven different colors it uses to create a large bow aftermath of torrential rain. Let’s hail all these varieties and see the world with an empathetic look. If we can, nothing will annoy us as we have learned the very traits to celebrate the turns and twists of life. We are in this world for a limited time. Here we don’t have the luxury to lead a dejected life caused by inauspicious everyday events. Why not make it charming and beautiful thinking of the little precious time we have been gifted. Let’s cherish the blessings of life realizing that they are unbound surrounding us. As someone once said: when it rains, look for rainbows; when it’s dark, look for stars. Being happy is not that much difficult. It’s just a matter of choice, and a witty wish to make.   

By

George Atlantic
Originally Written: 26-08-2014