Why Am I Happy??

Things happen in life. Life is essentially chain of incidences. We do not take notice of most of these and take them for granted. We carry on with our lives as if it does not matter whatever way these incidences take place. Though, such is far from being true.

I remember an inconspicuous day in my life. The day started like a normal day and went on like any other day and ended that way. That night, while lying in the bed, I realized that though it was just like any other day, throughout the day I was feeling happy, energetic and alive. I started analyzing the sequence of events of that day.  Nothing special had occurred on that day and still I felt very happy.  When I was about to give up my efforts to find out the reason behind my being so happy, it suddenly struck me. There is this flowering plant in my garden. It is there for so many years. It has never grown beyond certain height and had never flowered. But today morning on my way out, I saw that there was this lovely flower on that tree. I knew why I was happy.

Our life is like that. We have happiness all around us. We have to recognize, we have to spot the things that make us happy.  Happiness which we get from small things is always unadulterated and never at the cost of somebody's loss. 

Happiness out of victory is based on the fact that somebody else is defeated. Buying big new car or new house makes you happy, but this happiness is likely to have one side which is meant to show the world, "I am better than you". Wining tennis match or any race is likely to become more pleasant when you know you are better than so many others. We all run, toil and struggle to achieve things, have various possessions thinking that we will be happy when we will get what we so desperately desire.  This does not give pure happiness. This happiness comes at price and is invariably transient.

Happiness in small little things comes without payment. All that you need to do is open your eyes and mind to notice these things.