A happy person is a healthy person. A happy person is a
rich person. A happy person is a peaceful person. Bringing health, wealth and peace is the need of every individual. Every day
we all strive to achieve only that.
Personal impurities keep entering
our mind and body every day. Just as we bathe, we need to clean our mind of
impurities that influence our mind and bring negative thoughts inside. Meeting positive minded friends, talking
positive things about people and ourselves begets positivism.
One of my friends, Sheena would
always come home with innumerable complaints about people. “I am bogged down
with household chores and then office work”, she would complain. Sheena could
never see anything positive in any situation. Her husband would always be
bossing around, her children would never behave and her colleagues would never
consider her part of their gatherings. Sheena was otherwise very large hearted
and compassionate person, but nothing was working right for her.
In fact everything was working
right for Sheena but she could not see the positives in anything. She never
allowed any space to her husband or
her children. She considered all their problems her own. This was the biggest
mistake that she was making. She was trying to bring happiness into their life
and in the process ignoring herself completely. Her friends and colleagues also
avoided her company since she would air only negative thoughts.
Together we discussed and
examined her quandary. She searched
herself thoroughly. Yes, there are times when we need to search ourselves to
find the real US. Have you ever done that? It is an amazing experience. Just as
we see ourselves in the mirror, while searching we can see our mind in the
mirror. Instantaneously we can pin point our own mistakes. Having done that, we
get into the correction mode, just as Sheena did.
When she realized that she was
trying to don too many caps and making others’ happy at the cost of
compromising her own health and peace, she started searching for the undo
button inside her. Sheena had a herculean task dished out for her. The
responsibility that she was shouldering had to be given back to individual
members and her focus was now on herself.
Sheena let go of others' problems
from her mind. Once done, she enthused enthusiasm, laughed a lot, cracked
lot of jokes, listened to soothing music, got back to her hobbies and engaged
herself in positive activities, now her life had changed. She looked happier
and peaceful while her family members
and friends too would not stop
raving about her.
As for others, they all carried
on with their routine and were happy that Sheena was not meddling with their life anymore.
Someone has said - Hold the present and exhale the past
without regret. That is so true!!!
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