Happiness...

Clear blue skies, sun filled bright burning clouds and a cold mild breeze; on a day like this I took a flight into dreams and on a day as this I shall take on back home..

It has been a mixed journey of emotions, feelings and experiences. I haven't come so ahead in future that I can connect the dots yet I see why this trip was necessary for me like all the other ones I have take. I have grown as a person in this past 5 months and I have understood the value of life and things in it better.

The soul residing in us is like a connection between us and our Creator but most of us do not pay attention to what is being communicated but if one does listen, you find out that the answers are there within us; answers to our problems, quests and even our destiny! I have always been a seeker and a listener to my inner voice and trust me, it hasn't betrayed me. Try and listen to yours and see what you find out!!

Most of us aren't unhappy because life has given us pain but because we have failed to light the candle or stir the tea. Stir the tea? Wondering, aren't you? So then let me tell you a story to explain. Don't search for logic but try and grasp the essence...

A man who was about to die was locked in a room with a chair, table, a cup of tea and a spoon. He tried a sip and found that the tea had no sugar and hence started looking around the room for sugar. He laughed at how stupid it was to give someone tea without sugar in it. He died, went to God and complained how even the last thing God had given him, a cup of tea wasn't sweet. God told him 'the sugar was there but you just did not look well and think'. He claimed hes searched every part of the room but could not find the sugar. God asked, 'did you stir the tea?' He said 'no!' God said 'the spoon was there for you to stir the tea. I gave you the tea, even put the sugar but the only thing left was the simplest of them all, to stir!'

All of us complain to that God doesn't give us what we want yet none of us see the limitless blessings He has bestowed upon us. We expect Him to do everything for us, even stir the tea and that is where we fall. A bit of faith, hope, and effort on our part can give us the happiness we seek daily. All we have to do is look within us, find the sugar and stir the tea. Happiness is all around us if we set in pursuit of it!

On this note, I conclude with a couple of lines from my favorite book, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini...

"But you can't swim Hassan!"

"It is a dream, Amir Agha. You can do anything."

Cheers!
Peace!
Champ!