Happiness is an imperative. I retain happiness as one of the few constants in my life.
I don't need a valid reason to feel happy.
I need a valid reason not to feel happy. Happiness is my general state of being.
And I adore the word in itself, and can never find an apt synonym. I've loved it ever since I was a five year old licking chocolate off my fingers.
I often see people settling, compromising.
While literature, cinema, music often helps people soar, routine drudgery and societal norms condition people to believe happiness is a destination; the journey a struggle, a sacrifice.
It is anything but that.
A virginal blank page is a thing of happiness. It brims with possibilities of wording deep thoughts, forging experiences, beautiful catharsis, and creating something out of nothing.
A finish line at the end of a marathon is a thing of happiness. The pride is not in the medal.
The shiver even as the sun is in your eyes on a winter morning. The portion of the song you pause, and play on loop. The favorite something, anything, everything.
When I look back at high school, I often don't recognize the person I was.
But I have thought, I have lived, I have grown. As much as I have transformed into the person I am today, and as much as I am still to learn, let me remind myself to find happiness where ever it may be.
Rationality is happiness. Impulsiveness is happiness. A risk is happiness. Cake is happiness.
I don't need a valid reason to feel happy.
I need a valid reason not to feel happy. Happiness is my general state of being.
And I adore the word in itself, and can never find an apt synonym. I've loved it ever since I was a five year old licking chocolate off my fingers.
I often see people settling, compromising.
While literature, cinema, music often helps people soar, routine drudgery and societal norms condition people to believe happiness is a destination; the journey a struggle, a sacrifice.
It is anything but that.
A virginal blank page is a thing of happiness. It brims with possibilities of wording deep thoughts, forging experiences, beautiful catharsis, and creating something out of nothing.
A finish line at the end of a marathon is a thing of happiness. The pride is not in the medal.
The shiver even as the sun is in your eyes on a winter morning. The portion of the song you pause, and play on loop. The favorite something, anything, everything.
When I look back at high school, I often don't recognize the person I was.
But I have thought, I have lived, I have grown. As much as I have transformed into the person I am today, and as much as I am still to learn, let me remind myself to find happiness where ever it may be.
Rationality is happiness. Impulsiveness is happiness. A risk is happiness. Cake is happiness.
6 comments:
'I don't need a valid reason to feel happy.
I need a valid reason not to feel happy. Happiness is my general state of being.' - Amazing.
Simply Amazing, the thought process behind this post. Such profound thinking expressed in simplistic language. You deserve a cake just for that.
That's how everybody should think:)
Keep it that way, always be happy:)
You write beautifully, Nitisha.
I feel happy. :D
You write beautifully, Nitisha.
I feel happy. :D
:-O And here I was thinking happiness is just a flood of dopamine released into our brains when triggered by certain neuro-transmitters....:-P
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