Five reasons to be happy

"I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet"

What is the cause of the unhappiness in the world? 
We focus on what we do not have rather then what we have. we consider moon as most beautiful object "चाँद सा चेहरा / चाँद सा महबूब" But do you know earth looks far more beautiful from sky then moon. Moon is just a barren land with harsh environment for life. We are on earth but we long for moon which we do not have.

Happiness is the feeling of feeling lucky. feeling lucky is about feeling gratitude. That is why human has invented gods to forcefully install the feeling of gratitude since childhood. Once one start believing in god all the vagaries and vicissitude of the life fall in logic.

Faith is something like having a big locked box and believe box is full of gold and diamonds.You consider yourself wealthy and lead a happy life with the locked box and die happy with locked box.

Some people has broke open the box and found nothing there. Now they are going restless and puzzled over the vagaries and vicissitude of the life. Some are seeking happiness in materialistic life. But reason to feel lucky and gratitude towards something has lost. Now people has created drugs, fashion and many more things to make feel of self importance or different then others. All this alter our chemical balance in  body/mind/psychology to make feel us different. But all this not working out 100%.

I tried to find the reasons to be happy :) 

Top 5 universal reasons to be happy for all.

1. You are lucky that you are breathing, your heart is pumping. there are billions and billions of stars but so far earth is only known planet to sustain life. With millions years of evolution we have come with such highly sophisticated body and mind. thousands of our generation have struggled to survive. non of your ancestor died young. It is like flip billion coins and if all heads you will exist.
2. Because we are mortal.You will never be lovelier than you are now. Any moment can be last moment. We will never be here again. You have nothing to lose on earth.
3. You are lucky to never faced war,starvation,slavery,natural calamity.You did not born in third world
4. You are lucky to read this.There are millions people who are just living to live. their struggle is just survival "जिन्दा रहने के चक्कर में जान निकल जाती है". Billion people on earth go hungry each day.You can not point me a single reason why they do not deserve stomach full of food and education like you. You may not have control over your destiny but you have control over the direction of your effort.
5. You have family with you. Feel gratitude towards your father, mother, siblings, friends to give you company and support when you were unable to walk/talk/eat. If your are happy your mother will be happy, then why not be happy? I am lucky to have my mother in walk of life.

I am also grateful to Rana and Kesar to give me inputs on this. Some of the ideas are inspired with these folks :)

नयी रोशनी

कहदे तूफानों से कोई
किश्ती के डूबने से, नहीं अब हम डरते !
हौसला तैर कर समंदर पार करने का, अब हम रखते !!


कहदे उनसे जाकर कोई
तन्हा छोड़ जायेगे वो हमको सोचकर, नहीं अब हम डरते!
हौसला बिना साये के भी चलने का , अब हम रखते !!


कहदे रास्ते के पत्थरो से कोई
पथरीली राहो को सोचकर, नहीं अब हम डरते !
हौसला उड़कर मंजिल तक जाने  का, अब हम रखते !!