At more depth of thought, we can find that being happy is an attitude not a situation.
And what is an attitude? Your attitude is created by your own thoughts and of course, you choose your thoughts, on your own.
So, what do you say? Wouldn’t it be a right thing to grab the right attitude and, take notice of countless bliss bubbles floating around? It is just a matter of preparing yourself to set your mind towards identifying the tiny little happiness scattered all around you.
While preparing this article, I have just come across an article published in local newspaper, which talks about a sculptor named Sila Santosh, from the state of Kerala – the southern most Indian state, full of natural bounty, rich biodiversity, and is abode to many medicinal and cosmetic herbs.
Sila Santosh finds happiness in sculpture. He has transformed his this happiness source as his career, which further multiplies his happiness.
In the township of Adoor ( Nearly 200 km away from Thiruananthapuram, the state capital), he has built an unique house which fills the visitor with bliss and comfort, the moment he steps in. Spread in 200 sq.ft. , this house is made out of mud which is treated with fibres and extracts of 65 types of local herbs diffusing mixed and distinct aroma in the air inside. Apart from its cool and ecofriendly properties, this house for its creator is the house of his happiness which he identified, visualized and translated on the ground.
Thus you have to trace and search your happiness on your own. There is no readymade prescription for it, but it is not so difficult either. Just sit with a pen and paper, prepare your list of those little things which you love to do comfortably and feel the bliss internally while doing this.
The list that appears is amazing. You can not believe, you have a whole lot of things to make you happy and feel energized. Depending upon the mental construct, one may get interested in gardening, birds watching, night sky watching, photography, cleaning, creating some useful articles out of broken tiles, waste timber pieces, broken earthen wares, pebbles etc. People make gift items out of rags, dried flower petals, dried leaves and stems of local vegetation and experience the contentment of being a creator.
Further, writing the experiences related to relationships, travel, and your observations of culture of some alien land and society, unfolds many new doors of learning and opportunity, you will not believe, you have discovered all this while writing. Amazing things come up if the work in hand is happiness driven.
Making a roof top garden of your choice, sipping lemon tea or some energy drink by the side of your big flower pot and tuning in your favorite number will make your mood upbeat. Myriads of such small happiness, bubble around you. Collect them to suit your mood and time.
Personally me, I like to stare at the nature’s richness around my place. Watching my works in garden, watching the arrival of butterflies and birds to my plants, staring at and taking snaps of garden during suitable day light is great pleasure for me. Sowing seeds, sprinkling water on seed bed, and then on one fine morning, watching the small sprouts peeping through the soil to the vast universe unfolding before them, is the experience which words can not describe.
I stare to my fill at the interlocked canopies of tall trees around my house. Canopy of lofty coconut trees in my neighbor’s garden also adds to the panorama of my little garden. Mists of winter or cloudy weather of rainy season adds further to my pleasure of spending time in the garden. only I can know the volumes nature speaks to me here!
Life is made up of countless small pleasures and small accomplishments. Satisfaction of creating happy moments in family, the contentment of helping a needy person, promoting and buying the goods from your local artisan etc. are all the opportunities that credit substantially to your ” happiness balance”. Happiness may look small to some, but you have to feel it in a big way in your thoughts. These small happiness moments if relished frequently, increase the level of a feel good hormone called Dopamine in your blood. It is no less a magic of nature that enhances the longevity of man.
So why crying for big pleasures – getting rich, getting promotion, buying a house, etc. which come too infrequently, unlike the tiny pleasures which are always near you!
Think happy, be happy.
