Happyness: Certified ! !

Just read some interesting ways to stay happy. And suddenly, realized….

Wow, I am already following quite many of them!!

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight, and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them.

## Well I have really stopped caring about a lot of numbers, starting from the ones I have in my cell phone:)

No one is allowed to disturb me, if I don't want!

Gone are the days of dependency on phone, when my pulse used to stop if my phone hasn’t rung for more than 30 minutes. And trust me it works superb.

I used to wonder, how people go to sleep without having phone next to their pillow.

But now I know that it does not show weakness of your social network, but the strength of your isolation.

As far as, weight/age/height is concerned... I don't want to pay doctor for any of them, so would prefer to worry just a little about them…. Just a lil :-)

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. (Keep this in mind if you are one of those grouches!)

## Aah!! Grouches can't survive in my company. They either vanish or change.

I have a long list of friends, who belonged to the latter category.

So, grouches.... never a challenge!!

3. Keep learning: Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain get idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's!

## Yeah.. Yeah!! Okay... Devil has a lot of room, here……

But would surely try to reduce that!!

4. Enjoy the simple things

## I do. I do. I do!

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with him or her!

## Well... How would you introduce me to someone new - the girl, whom you will always see laughing, because she is kinda mental! Actually, this point is not for me, but for those, who are free of cost increasing their RBC content because of me.

How crucial can be my existence, for them ;)

6. The tears happen: Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is our self. LIVE while you are alive.

## Yeah! I accepted the truth, lately.

7. Surround yourself with what you love: Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, and hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge

## Fish!! This is one point, where I am lagging horribly. I always stuck at a wrong place with wrong people and wrong environment… Lord, I need some fixation there!

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

## Yes, I do loads of walking and eat lots of fruits and drink milk and do all that I could do, while living in a rat-hole :)

9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

## Guilt prone…yes definitely….But never mind... If I would have all the points, perfect…. I would reach the state of nirvana... so lemme have some open ends to keep myself moving :)

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

## Well then here’s a list of people I would like to say “I Love You”

My grand-parents, my parents, my cissy Prinks, my other siblings, my best friends Afrin, Aman and Sharada, all the people who have challenged me out and out, for people who have motivated me in some way and of course those who inspire me….Love u all!

And without any doubt, the one who loved me irrevocably and have asked nothing more than love in return, this one’s for u Shu….I love u and will always do <3

Its 'Pretensions' -- Not for me...!!

             Its almost night and I feel the strong desire to close my eyes and fall down on bed. But what is stronger than that is the pleasure of being with yourself. Yeah! I could say that the times when I feel closest to myself are the ones, when I write. Despite the fact that blogs are public platforms, helping people to sneak into your lives, very conveniently, I proudly own each and every emotion depicted in these words.

So, life is seeing a helluva change.. (for good, though). All, never before turning into first timers and I am enjoying all these phases of transitions, where I find myself as a center of attraction and reason of joy for people I care. Most of the times, our lives do not turn out to be the way, we have imagined them to be. We can call it our short sightedness that most of our lives' imaginations are inspired by the things that we could see close by. We imagine our perfect lives with our present friends, jobs and eco-systems. Thankfully, God doesn't think the same way. He makes you a part of a much bigger picture and later you also realize that the proposition has come out really well and all this while, you were just getting frightened by some imaginary fears.

But these joyous transitions cajole you to forget some very pressing issues in life. Pressing, just for one person and that is you. They could swipe you off from the ground of purpose and make you indulge into pleasures that only look sustainable. This has happened with me so many times and every time I have promised myself to not let this happen again... but it did. However, the span of coming back has reduced significantly, proving that I am slowly but steadily learning from my mistakes.

            Time and again I have realized that the only thing that gives us consistent joy and respect is the feeling of working for the purpose of our lives. Even the pain of sacrifices gets washed away from the self-respect that we earn while working for our dreams. I must say that I have spent a lot of time, before identifying what I could call my purpose in life. Also, in all these years I have been pretty cursory towards its fulfillment. Sometimes, I doubted my own intentions and commitment. But after every thing, my heart kept me coming back to it and now I feel that I have reached the point, where there could not be any turning back. I could now sense the honesty of fulfilling these dreams reaching to my soul.. and that turning to be a guiding light and a source of constant self-motivation.

I may not have improved much.. but a change is definite and I give myself points for that.