Adi Dantre, Class XII-C
Is it really that difficult to be happy? No, it isn’t.
I consider happiness as an intricate relation between self and actions. But nowadays we have this imaginary wall between self and action. This wall doesn’t belong to Trump and it’s not even made of commonly available building material. It’s made up of a bit of every part of you, that either wants you to be unreasonably sad or wants you to be non/under productive. In some cases, that part is also made up of prolonged thought over silly moments of unexplainable interaction with fellow humans or a prolonged need for attention. I won’t say that the latter two aren’t ‘serious’ components of the wall. They’re just not something that should be constituting the wall.
At times when I walk down the hallway, I see some acquaintances approach me and ask, “Why are you so sad?” I say, “I’m not”. But, what I really want to say is, “You know what, I’m bursting with happiness, but, I see no reason to be frolicking around the school campus to do that, even though sometimes, I might actually do that.”
We have made happiness into quite an alien concept, like we have audiobooks, books and all that self-help stuff to be happy in life, but, what we need to buy is the idea that you have to be happy all the time, without any self-help stuff. Besides, when you’re happy you have this simple invisible-yet-super-aura around you. You’ll feel it, along with those around you. You must have seen in paintings of holy saints and deities, this circle of light behind them. Don’t you get it? It’s the aura, that starry glow of aura is there with them for they rest in perpetual happiness.
‘Why not be happy’ is the question. As I said, when you’re happy, you’ll have this aura around you and others will feel it. People who care for you will search for ways and reasons to keep that happiness alive for as long as possible while others might do things that sadden you.
Feel free to be happy everywhere, for believe me that one of these days I’m taking a big hammer to break down that wall made up of all that non-happiness and let all that happiness flow in like water broken out of a dam.
Over and out.
