I leave my house in the morning to reach my destination of college/work. I come across and pass by numerous faces, each unique and each telling a story of its own. It makes me wonder. Every person I see is a person who is loved by and dear to somebody. Each day is a new day. One day might just change your life or it might just break your life. You might just realize your dream and embark on the path of miracles while on other instances, you might just shatter your dream and thereafter, nursing your bleeding heart may take decades.
My outward side used to seem cheerful enough to all the people who interacted with me. It just makes me appreciate the poem I studied in school by a Nigerian author about the masks worn on the faces of people all around us. It seems quite apt as to what I felt inside could not be seen by others. I might be burning with pain and solitude internally but portrayed a calm and composite exterior. That is how we all are. But one thing is undisputed, when you are happy and exuberant from your mind and soul, the body reciprocates heartily. The feeling of happiness and joy percolates from your heart into your smile, your laugh, your talk, your body language, and your energetic mannerisms. It has happened with me as to when I was sincerely in a cheerful spirit; my friends thought I was drunk! That is because you seem so excited and ready to talk and do everything you feel like. It is indeed rightly said “High on Life”. Contentment is a natural drug which if you are lucky enough to have; you don’t need the ‘real’ drugs.
I always want to think of myself as an Optimist. But I wondered as to what really is optimism? People, some quite learned have described it in a variety of ways. What I have come to believe is that it is not necessary that an optimist person has to think positive in all the various situations which he encounters daily. Things might just not go right for you for months and years at a stretch. In these times, even an optimist person might get pessimistic on life and will start tending to believe that nothing is going right for him. But a true optimist is one who though he is shadowed temporarily by clouds of pessimism, believes that ultimately things will turn out in his favour. He doesn’t stop dreaming. My favorite word since quite some time is ‘Dreaming’. This word arouses a beautiful feeling in me and makes me feel so glad, now I really don’t know why? There is no limit to a person’s dreams. As they say sky is the limit, but incase of dreaming there is absolutely NO limit. I too dream and I dream about things which if I think pragmatically will never come true. But again that does not deter my spirits and I go on dreaming. I attended a function in college some days back and there was one lady who spoke to us on that occasion. She seemed quite smart and what I liked about her was that she was a perfect epitome of a confident person. She spoke on the importance of wishing and dreaming and moving ahead in life. She told each and every one of us to read ‘The Secret’. Personally I have read bits and pieces of that book and at that point of time, I found it boring. Today I vent an opposite view though.
Again the main issue which will arise is that who doesn’t want to be happy and cheerful? Everybody does. It is not a personal choice in which we are asked ‘Hey do you want happiness?’ No, things aren’t that easy, at least in this big world. I am no scholar of Philosophy nor am I God to answer why some of us are more fortunate than the others. I would just like to believe that true inner desire and hard work is the key to success. If a person is hard working, his results will pay off some day or the other. Your kismet might be doing a U-Turn and moving in an opposite direction to where you want to move but hard work does count. Finally I feel that all must dream and keep on wishing. Who knows, your wish might just be coming true!
