Often, I am being asked, why are you looking so happy?
Many times, before I could say anything, they provide me the answer too - "since you are unmarried, you can afford to be happy."
Is being happy inversely proportional to being married?
Sometime back, someone asked me again - "Why are you so happy?" and immediately, she filled in - "What are you hiding?"
Is really being happy a cloak on our inner turmoils that we go through in our worldly struggles?
To her, I simply replied back saying "There definitely has to be a reason for being sad. But why should one need a reason for being happy?" I got her frustrated and confused look in return. Probably because I didn't tell her, what I was hiding. Though in truth, I was hiding a lot that day and fighting with my own self and my circumstances.
There will always be some or other circumstances, a situation that I have no control over. Happiness to me is to be free of all worries, to let go of things that do not matter. That freedom where no situation deters me or holds me captive. It surely then requires a lot of courage and determination to break the barriers posed by such situations and be free to be happy.
How wonderful it will be if happiness becomes my life's default state!
Many times, before I could say anything, they provide me the answer too - "since you are unmarried, you can afford to be happy."
Is being happy inversely proportional to being married?
Sometime back, someone asked me again - "Why are you so happy?" and immediately, she filled in - "What are you hiding?"
Is really being happy a cloak on our inner turmoils that we go through in our worldly struggles?
To her, I simply replied back saying "There definitely has to be a reason for being sad. But why should one need a reason for being happy?" I got her frustrated and confused look in return. Probably because I didn't tell her, what I was hiding. Though in truth, I was hiding a lot that day and fighting with my own self and my circumstances.
There will always be some or other circumstances, a situation that I have no control over. Happiness to me is to be free of all worries, to let go of things that do not matter. That freedom where no situation deters me or holds me captive. It surely then requires a lot of courage and determination to break the barriers posed by such situations and be free to be happy.
How wonderful it will be if happiness becomes my life's default state!
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