A life where the day starts with a loving kiss on the forehead by your handsome and caring husband, followed by waving your cute little kids good-bye as they leave for school. Then a soothing bath in your Jacuzzi and thereafter driving your favorite SUV to an office where all your colleagues including your boss respect your individuality and intellect. Where, during the lunch break, you all gather around the pool table for a wonderful game and chat about the office life. And then you go home for a rigorous exercise session and later cooking a lavish dinner for your sweet family.
Where almost every other weekend is spent with family and old friends on exotic and relaxing vacations and every Saturday night is the ‘Date Night’ to rewind back to your pre-marriage dating.
Now that seems like a ‘fantastic’ life, doesn’t it? We all wish for ourselves a life like this, where we never fight and live in a perfect balance between family, friends and work! Where harmony, peace and satisfaction are the striking features of our living, and our aura is the one which radiates happiness and attracts everyone around! And where our happiness and contentment, is not only determined by our bank balances but also by our ‘real wealth’, our relationships. Where all these factors define our ‘Success’!
But in that very life, we forget all about this and work opposite to our own dreams. We fight and nurture feelings of jealousy, unfair competitiveness, malice and mean selfishness. We stomp on our relations to gain higher posts and wealthier bank balances. We value materialism more than human friendships and hurt the ones around us, totally forgetting all about the ‘balance’! We never care about real and long-lasting happiness, but only about momentary applause and how we can steal them away from our colleagues. We want to be respected by all, but forget the pre-requisite for that, respecting others!
We run in the wrong direction but expect the right treatment of our egos and selfish selves! In our ambitiousness, we ill treat the ones who love and care for us. And after all this, we blame life and God to have treated us wrong if we get a percent less in exams or miss out on a contract or when we discover our partner’s infidelity. We always think about what the other did to us or didn’t do for us, but we never ponder upon our treatment towards them! This way our ‘fantasy life’ goes down the gutter and instead we get a complex, disgruntling, sadistic and painful life, which will give one jitters if imagined even for our worst enemies!
We forget that to live that ‘fantasy life’ we need to follow our beautiful heart and not our greedy brain! We need to love and feel for the ones who love us. We need to trust, our own self and also the ones around us, as life can’t be lived happily with a constant eye of suspicion. We should not doubt but believe! We also need to realize that flaws and faults of people are minor and not so important. What is important is love!
Life is very simple indeed! And happiness is rooted in that simplicity. It comes from filling one’s heart with love, from faith and hope and from practicing charity and dispensing kindness!
In the end, a beautiful quote i read in a book recently,How does light enter a house? Through the open windows.How does light enter a person? Through the open doors of love!!
