Grand essentials of happiness

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

It is past 6 AM here and unlike me I am awake. Was it the sunlight streaming in through my windows? Was it the hope that a Monday usually brings along with it? Or was it just because I had already slept a lot the previous day and my body was complaining “Bas karo”?

Whatever it is I am awake. When I wake up I find that there are certain thoughts already running amok in my mind. These are thoughts of the people I miss, the things I want to do, the dreams I want to achieve and often also of something I have been trying to remember really hard but was unable to do so. Today I found myself asking what I really really wanted to do? What I want to be and how to get there? What is my 42? Was I happy?

Now these are the sort of questions that, as a rule, come into my mind only after I have had my glass of hot bournvita. I was stumped. That’s when this quote told to me by a friend of mine recently came to me.

I already have something to do (and I love doing it), lots of people and things to love and lots to hope for. So by definition I am already happy. I just have to make sure I always have something to love, lots of people to love and something to look hope for and I guess I will always be happy.

Now let me go and brush. I have a busy day and busy week ahead. See you later.

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 27th, 2007 at 9:06 pm and is filed under thoughts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

1 Comment so far

  1. and your friend is the first and your friend is the first one to read this blog.
    Yes, you have got the formula right.

    WORK + LOVE + HOPE = HaPpInEsS.

    And here is an working example …

    Am at work talking to my love and hoping to meet her soon in the evening.
    And that makes me Happy !!!

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