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En route Happiness

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Many people whom we come across everyday have set goals to achieve what they call happiness. Some might have a promotion in their job as that goal, some might want a cooler car or better exam result. Yes, what they experience on achieving those goals is a close relative of happiness, but not the original phenomenon. Walking towards these goals, they are so focused on the ultimate destination that they forget to pick up pieces of the original feeling on their way. They are not able to see the numerous chances in their way that could provide them with happiness while treading towards their goals. The real happiness is in the way. 

Happiness is spending time with your loved ones, your parents, your siblings and your friends. Watching their smiles and watching those smiles spill is happiness. Knowing what they'll do next and finding amusement in those deeds is happiness. Happiness is eating your mother's food after a long time and recalling what's so special about this ordinary food. Happiness is in watching her cook, experiment with her food. Your father still bringing eatables on his way back home from office too is happiness. Happiness is when your brother takes pains for your stupid demands. Happiness is watching yourself being protected. Happiness is with the family. 

Happiness is in discovering new places with friends, both material and emotional and hanging around those places together. That can be a roadside tea stall, or a golgappa joint, or a kebab restaurant or a place down these memory lane which you cherish. You get happiness when others dig that memory out for you and have around it together. This doubles when when that friend is your childhood friend and that memory joint has both of you in it. Maybe in the past it wasn't funny but after a while, you find amusement in it. Happiness is sharing that amusement. That could be a beating by a strict teacher, or a joke that stayed fresh for years or a punishment that was shared. Happiness is in sharing memories. Happiness is in nostalgia. 

Happiness is not only in recalling old memories alone. It is also in creating new ones. Happiness is finding new people and making great friends out of them. Happiness is also in discovering yourself. It is is discovering new passions. You may fail in few but the enthusiasm in trying new things is happiness in itself.elders

Happiness is when your elders take pride in you and the younger ones respect you. Happiness can be as large as holding a baby in your hands, taking utmost care of its tender body or as small as finding a ten rupee note under the fridge cover. It can be a promised bike by your father or a mere pat on the back from him. It's all about how your see things. We should always keep looking for small opportunities that life throws our way of being happy and make the most of them. All the happiness is en route. 



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