A little story of happiness
Yesterday I came across a lady working in a grocery store and the moment I saw her, I witnessed happiness. She was a white Australian lady in her 50s, short, wearing store uniform, no special hairdo, no makeup, and no jewelry, standing at the cash register and doing this basic job of scanning and putting items in the bags — but she was in the ocean of joy. She had a genuine smile on her face but it was much more than that, she was radiating positivity and I was witnessing sparks of joy coming out of her eyes. It wasn’t something I witness every day. There wasn’t anything exciting happening around, she wasn’t talking to anyone nor she was doing something interesting — but her feeling she was as if she was having the best day of her life.
I complimented her for being in such a joyful state and asked how come she was so genuinely happy? And she gave me this golden nugget of hers.
“I have learned in life problems are not going to end. No matter what you have got and achieved, troubles will continue to live around, but I do not let troubles steal my joy. I do get sad at times but I do not live a life being sad. I am happy with myself and my problems.”
“I am happy with myself and my problems.”
This line is worth reading at least one million times. This is Shuker. This is thankfulness to its basis. Anybody who is happy with himself/herself and is happy having problems then such a person has a discovered the source of eternal happiness. There is nothing that you could do to take her happiness away.
If I expand her message, what she meant is that;
- happiness is not in things, or in the absence of things.
- happiness doesn’t exist because there is an absence of problems or that they are less or more.
- happiness has a life of its own and it gets born when we ask it to born. It doesn’t need a source or a reason to born.
- When you discover yourself and accept yourself as you are and all of yourself, that aspect alone is enough to keep you happy.
- Real happiness is unconditional happiness, a happiness that doesn’t need a source to born out of and cannot be killed when anything is taken away. It’s like a light that exists without its source.
That lady had discovered a treasure of joy and that was enriching her life. I wish I could take a photo of her, or record those moments in camera as it was an unusual occurrence. I meet hundreds rather thousands of people every day but none of us seems to get this message. We struggle hard to be happy hoping we are “earning it” but no, it doesn’t need an earning. we assume happiness will come when we will become something, or buy something or when problems will go away hoping the absence of troubles will make or keep us happy — but no — we have got it wrong. All of us have got it wrong. If you can absorb this little message at any stage in life, you will end up generating happiness from within.
“I am happy with myself and my problems.”
May we all are able to get this message and live happily-ever-after.
