There are times when some words touch the right chord within you. Though you understand they are profound, still it takes time for your heart and soul to absorb their meaning and even more to talk about them. This is something a friend told me some months ago ,at the book fair - " Rachita, you got to be prepared for happiness; if you stay low and upset how would happiness enter your world?" You meant something so deep my friend that it has taken me months to accept and implement your words in my life.
A very simple explanation gave sense to these words - We clean our houses and decorate them before Diwali - with the belief that Goddess Laxmi would come to our place. We don't clean and decorate if and after she comes to our home. We do the same when we know the guests would be coming to our place. But somehow when we want happiness to enter our lives, we forget this simple mantra that we have to be first prepared to welcome happiness. Let's open our hearts and be prepared for happiness to come in.
Opening your heart is not only believing that happiness would come but also preparing your body and soul to enjoy it. We get so depressed and affected by downs of life that we forget that life is a cycle that too constantly moving. Good things await us just round the corner but we got to be ready for them. Ultimately whether we are happy or not depends on our beliefs. And the worst happens when we aren't even able to feel happiness and count our blessings. This happened with someone close to me. Only thing that comes to my mind in such a situation is - Count your blessings and your are alive and breathing is the biggest reason to be happy.
Lately life has taught me a valuable lesson - Happiness would come only if you want it and are prepared to welcome it with your heart, mind and soul. So make changes in the way you think, you live and see life - Be positive and happiness shall find your address. Be depressed , think the worst and happiness will readily forget that you exist. So the crux of the life is everything starts from inside even happiness.
Stay Happy and Happiness will stay with you.
