Success: My Explication

Success in life, to me, is only a measure of how much of a difference you bring to people’s lives. Anything else is just a mindless exaltation resulting from mere fulfillment of material interests. Awards, recognition or fame don’t mean anything either.

Very shallow thought perhaps, but I like to think that way.

The Gift - II

A realization of lack of virtues is a gift. The beckoning that follows is fruitful.

Being Unconventional

It’s ironical and woeful that to do good to society and mankind at large, you need to be ‘unconventional’. It seems to me that traits like undivided attention, unwavering focus, unrestrained enthusiasm and unconditional commitment, the ones needed to make a significant difference are not imbibed by default.

That way, existence within this macrocosm is meaningless; un-belonging beckons.

The Quest

Courage awakened, arose an unrelenting will
To smile at life, and the pain it may spill
Pride marched forward, despair lay conquered;
The person in the mirror is whom I had discovered.

The Smile

In a disarray was my mind
Restless my heart chose to be
Then it dawned upon myself
It was your smile that was killing me.

The Circle of Happiness

Try out this simple test. Draw a circle on a sheet of paper. Within it write down everything that you think makes you happy. Anything at all, small or big – fame, money, car, jewels, gadgets, or even just coffee. If you are not able to fit in everything into the circle you have drawn, draw a bigger circle, and repeat this exercise till you have a circle that fully envelopes all the things that make you happy, joyful. So, how big is your circle of happiness?

Most typically, our circle of happiness is unimaginably large – so large that perhaps, you wouldn’t be able to draw that on a sheet of paper. It is not so hard to deduce that the larger the circle, the more difficult it is to be happy. Therefore, the perfect state of happiness – no circle at all. It is when you don’t need anything to be happy; you are happy because you just choose to be. Perhaps, this is the state that is documented as the “transcendental state” in our religious texts.

So, let me go back to my circle of happiness and help see it shrink by the day - a lot of work to do here.