The Happiness in me

There is a 'Happiness' in me which lives, inspite of all the days of pain and misery that sometimes I recall. I crave for a different kind of place that I have been, and so, in that direction my feet must follow His.

While I remain below, God cut my earth bound moorings and granted I should be attuned to Heaven's voices through the happiness in me
~ Grace Easley.


How beautifully written! All the Happiness that you can feel is within yourself. Don't look for it in the outside world. It is right there, in your heart. It can be anything as small as smelling a flower, or spending time with your loved ones. It is in the little things and as we always say - little things do matter! When we are satisfied with what we have, we can feel happiness, we feel content, we feel complete! It is hard to do.. the worldly pleasures and yearnings are hard to let go of, but we can keep trying to remind ourselves more often than ever, that the Happiness lies within.

Close your eyes, and tell yourself - "The happiness is within me, I am the source of my happiness. There is happiness everywhere in me, and it will stay... forever. I will always come back to this feeling of happiness, for that is where I belong!" 

A Glowing Candle

Today, I saw a beautiful candle - glowing and shedding its orangish-yellow light between the cold and snowy white mountains, surrounded by misty fog. It was a dream, or should I say, just a scene in my dream, that I saw with closed eyes; but the whole scene is still fresh in my memory. I can still see it, feel it, as if it's still there, it is 'real'!

It gives me inspiration and so I want to share it here.

This is the only candle flickering its light between these huge, dark, and snowy mountains. It's cold everywhere, the trees are covered in snow, and the cool breeze of wind, incessantly trying to blow the flame off. The candle is struggling to be aflame. The obstacles are too many, and it is difficult to survive, but the candle is still aflame. It keeps up the relentless efforts to glow, and provide the littlest light, and warmth, possible. It fights persistently.

The fight between the candle and the gusty breezes continues, but it seems as if the candle has made up its mind, to fight, to keep doing what it is meant to do - to provide light, (even though there is only little hope of survival, or may be none!) and warmth (even though it is as good as none, when compared to these snow clad mountains) but it is still there - the light that it sheds is the ray of hope, and the warmth it provides, is the inspiration to keep going, and spreading warmth and love amongst everyone around us.

This candle is truly an inspiration to me, to us! We can all keep glowing and shed the light of positivity, of love, of happiness. We can all fight persistently, or at least try - for that matter, to overcome the obstacles in life. We can all be a source of inspiration for people around us. Because that is what we are meant to do - to be persistent and keep going, to fight the hurdles of life, to keep going, to smile and spread love, and hope.

The Road to your Life

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Follow your heart and be true to yourself. Never live the life of another. You have to create your own road. You have a responsibility to be best you can possibly be, so keep your mind and heart open to higher aspects of your being. And if you do so, you will harness the power to live a loving and fulfilling life with attitude. ~ Anonymous

Eureka!!!.. Back to blogging

Hello there...

Its been a long long time, almost a year now, since I have written or updated my blog. Well, there were a series of situations that kept me occupied and away from my passion of writing. But now... here I am, back to writing my heart out. So I wave my hand vigorously and say hello to whoever is reading this. Yes.. I am expressing my happiness.. that I am finally... finally back to writing. Hoorraaayyyyy!!!

I have promised myself that I will be writing more often than ever and keep writing to all you beautiful people out there. So watch this space and keep reading!

See you out there soon.

Live your dream!!

I happened to watch this just released "Yeh jawani hai deewani" a few days back. I want to share some of the interesting messages that are indirectly conveyed through this movie.

It may not have the best of the story. But it certainly has a lot of valuable thoughts and teachings.

Scene 1-When Naina decides to take a break and go for the trekking trip with all the unknown people.
# This shows that life is too short to be occupied. Decisions should be quick and should be the ones that give you "permanent happiness instead of temporary one."

Scene 2-When Naina and Bunny trekk the Boota hill knowing the rumours about it being haunted.
# This shows that live life fearlessly. There is no better feeling than overcoming your fears and cherishing the later moments.

Scene 3-When Aditi sends an emotional video message to Bunny inviting him for her marriage,considering that he wont come as he will be busy in his professional dream life.
# This shows that no matter what you do,where you work,what you have achieved,you will always be that special friend of a few people's life. Some things can never change even with time.

Scene 4-When Aditi finally notices that Bunny has come to attend her marriage and she jumps out like any random wildest frog on earth.
# This shows that some people may consider you as a major priority in your life without even letting you know. Nothing might give them happiness than just spending time with you. "Now it is upto you whether you want to understand that role of priority and carry on or just prioritize your own value and life and its goals and just neglect the happiness of others. This may give you a luxury life. But it surely wont give you comfortable life."

Scene 5-When Bunny and Avi fight on the issue of not  being in touch with each other since 8 years.
# This shows that you need to find time to speak to the people around you even in your busiest of the schedules. It may be difficult but when you look back after neglecting it,all you see is the fault of others and not yours. No one asks you to text or call at every moment. Afford one chat in a week to keep the relatioship healthy. Take interest in your friends life. Check out whats happening and if you could help him/her to make it better.

Scene 6-When Bunny's dad refuses him to go to America as he would be alone but yet he lets him go because he would be happy if his son is happy.
# This proves that parents could do anything for their children. Even though if its at the sake of their own personal happiness. Its upto us whether we understand,respect and work for our dreams and their happiness or not. They would never show the care that they have for us. We need to understand it.

Scene 7-When Bunny has to quit his dreams for his love Naina and peace and has to stay back and not go to Paris.
# Sometimes,life puts you in a situation when you are left absent minded. In such situations,always listen to what your heart says. Empty mind is a devils workship. You sometimes need to re-plan your goals and ambitions according to the situations. "Not only yours,but the happiness of the person with you also matters." This is the point we generally tend to forget as we have adapted to this selfish mentality of the mean world.

Well,the movie has many such scences which give us a lot to learn if looked upon it in that way. It is upon us how we perceive things. This is my perception. A positive one towards life.

Just to conclude,
I would add a line from the movie which goes as "Life mein kabhi bhi kitna bhi try kar lo,kuch na kuch hamesha chhut hi jaata hai."
Just to finish the line,"Jitna chhut jaata hai uski parwah mat karo. Abhi jo ho tumhare paas hai,uska maza lo. Usmein khush raho."

As said earlier,life is too short to live for everything.

The final choice is yours,
Priority or friends.
Luxury life or peaceful life.
Self-smile or reason behinds someones' smile.
And more importantly,
Preplanned goals and ambitions or situationaly modified goals and ambitions.

A worth watching movie!!

Listening to our "self"

This Love Has Whispered
Secrets In Your Ear
That Don't Make Sense
To Anybody Else.
You Know Who You Are.
You Are The Shining Star. ~ Rumi 

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Just when I think I have known myself enough, and that I cannot handle anymore, and as I start to give up to some particular situation, I start to get these little signs that I have more to myself. Someway or the other, I begin to realize that I have further to go. I realize that there is still work to be done and then I tend to survive.

I believe that it is important to nurture ourselves, especially during these waves of emotion that we often experience and they tend to drag us with them all the time. This state of emotional imbalance breaks us down. We therefore need to take the much needed time to listen to our inner voice, what is it telling us? 

Take time for yourself in these intense times with so much going on all around us – remember to breathe, to be in nature with Mother Earth, to do what your soul loves to do and what makes you feel true to you. This is a continual process – one which I find has become more intense. Getting to know ourselves is an awesome feeling, understanding our self and being able to work through and release so much of our "stuff" that continues to surface, is a truly empowering and rewarding experience.

Wee bits of Happiness

Happiness!!! Aaahhh!! Is it something you are after? Does it seem to be far away? Why are we always after it? Why do we always feel that most people around us have it, and we don't.

I feel this way too. But lately, I have realized that happiness is always around us. At least a few tiny little pieces of pleasure are easily available and accessible.

As they say.. happiness resides in small things. Little joys come from little things. Well for me, I definitely am one of those trying to find happiness in little things. Well... that is all I can do as of now.


I seek happiness in little day to day activities, like, listening to music, watching the stars, chirping of the birds, to cooing of the cuckoo before the rains, watching the rain, a little sunshine after the rain, the smell of my favorite flowers, when my little baby holds my hand, smiles at me and when she gives me a hug for no reason. Even a four word sentence said by someone (i.e. "you look great today", or "I love your smile") can make my day. These are the little things that always make me smile and make me feel that I am alive. They are not exactly what I am after, but these are wee bits of happiness that are always around.. no matter where I am.  And its a wonderful feeling to be able to see, feel and touch these little pieces of happiness.

We just need to take a few minutes out of our lives to feel and enjoy these precious moments. And they have to be enjoyed now.. because we never know what tomorrow will bring to us. So why wait for tomorrow... Lets just cherish today!! :)

"Happiness is as a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond our grasp,
But which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you" ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne