Amidst the Valentine week, every morning my Facebook and BBM updates are flooded with the likes of Propose Day, Teddy Day and Chocolate Day stuff. But while browsing through a newspaper this morning, I found something like today being the 'World Happy Day'. I hadn’t really heard anything like that ever, falling in the middle of this Valentine fever. Curiosity took the better of me and made be google it. The information was true indeed. 11th February, 2012 had been declared as the 'World Happy Day'.
Quite a fancy concept, isn't it? On discussing it with my team, I get a prompt statement- 'So today you should do something to make me happy then.' This was one obvious and predictable statement, which would have probably come out for me as well, if I was at their place. Yet, giving it a little more thought, does it mean that our happiness is mostly dependent on what others do for us? Can we not take it on ourselves to make us happy? Are the feelings not dependent on our own state of mind?
The same article that educated me on the concept of this day, stated about this girl, who could derive happiness out of blowing bubbles out of soap water. Those exquisitely fragile creations which came out of the end of the glass pipe dipped in soap water made her happy. I’m sure each one of us has such under lying little little things out of which we derive happiness. I’ve listed mine in one of my previous blogs. So I’m going use this one to just share what I read in that article, hoping that each of us may be able to related to at least one or two in the below listed points (if not all) and use it in our day to day life to stay happy! So here you go:
• Do not waste time doing things of little or no value that make you uneasy, feel unwanted and land you in debt. Try focusing on things that make you happy instead.
• Do not constantly blame everyone else for your rotten situation — the authorities, your friends, your parents, Justin Bieber, etc. Learn to take the ownership.
• Do not expect to fail at everything and say, “I told you so”, after everything goes as badly as you predicted. Before taking up anything challenging, tell yourself ‘I can do it’
• Do not waste time regretting past mistakes and lousy decisions taken by you. It would not magically change them. And plus, at that moment, it was exactly what you wanted.
• Do not close your mind to new ideas that might make a real difference to your life and continue doing whatever didn’t work before. Take chances. Try risking it.
• Do not presume that all your friends have the same pessimistic outlook in life as you do. Listen to their advice. Being a third party, they may be able to take a better decision for you.
• Do not think badly of yourself and say so into the mirror whenever you get a chance. Think positive and feel positive about your self.
• Do not think of your life as worthless and get people to tell you what they think is wrong about you as well. Negative feedback should be welcome only when you are ready to perceive them positively.
• Do not waste time trying to change other people, who don’t want to change. Sometimes it’s better to leave them. They are mature enough to guide the course of their own life.
So after the ‘Dos’ listed previously, here’s the list of ‘Do Nots’ for you to ponder on.
Happy Reading!
