Monday, 25 June 2018

Happiness is your choice


Happiness is your choice

Look at your surroundings, office, streets, meeting rooms... You see faces with sadness, disturbed, confused, questioning, stressed, depressed, neutral, and so on. Very rarely you see faces with happiness.

Once it happened in our office meeting room, one of our colleague entered the room with happiness, suddenly all others in the team started asking questions like, why are you happy, what happened, anything special, no work and so on.

I just commented on that; now a day we commonly see faces with lot of pressure, sadness and stress, we consider them as normal. If you see any face with happiness, obviously it looks abnormal. People realized... It was a mixed opinion, still some people felt having sad or pressurized faces best fits for the office, else we may get more work.

Today you are unable to see happy faces either in office or outside. Just look at the traffic, most of the faces looks like a strict police officer or army commandos. Real police officer faces look little happier compared with corporate employees.

Reason for these unhappy faces are:
1. People are carrying their problems wherever they go.
2. People carrying work pressure in their mobiles and mind.
3. People caring their EMIs more than the bank people.
4. People carrying home issues to office, and vice versa.
5. People carrying every other disturbance which are happening near or far.
6. People carrying problems of medical, financial, professional, and political too.

Happiness is based on your choice/decision, you can be happy or you can be unhappy.

Materials, things and people are nothing to do with your happiness. Without them you can be happy, with all of them you can be unhappy.

Just now, if you want to be happy you can, if you want to be unhappy, you can. It depends on your thinking and thoughts.

Unfortunately, most of the time, 80% of the people in the world remember things and situations, that make them feel bad, sad and suffer. That's why we see very less happy faces or people.

If you think food makes you happy, visit the countries who are struggling for the food. They are happier than the people who are having all the food.

If you think material or mansions make you happy, visit the places where people are living in a streets and huts. They are happier than the people who are living in a Mansions and Villa's.

If you think girlfriend/wife or boyfriend/husband makes you happy, look at the people who have them.

Happiness is your choice!

It's good to have some certificate for happiness. People now a day running behind all certification course, corporates need to measure happiness rating of a person, before hiring.

Many people intentionally keep their faces sad, stressed and loaded. Just to show off in office, initially they start doing that, slowly that will become their permanent face or nature.

Many times, I have been questioned by my colleagues and cabmets as; it looks like you don't have any work. Reason is, they have never seen my face with pressure, stress and sadness. They are wondering by seeing my face, how come you are happy and energetic. Looks like you don't have anything to do at office. When I show any of my rewards they were further wondering, how are you getting rewards with no work. Some of them commented on my manager also; it looks like your manager is simply giving rewards.

I was just laughing for all the comments, because I know how committed I'm, in my work and why I get those rewards. Work has nothing to do with your happiness, you don't need to keep sad face, if you have more work. I have developed one hobby; i.e. I started living in present moment. I don't carry forward things, situations and emotions unnecessarily.

Many people unnecessarily take tensions and create tensions. They don't know how to be happy. And some stupid people measure employees by their faces not by their work, that is creating more worst corporate culture.

This happened in my previous office, I was in lift, with me there were few co-workers, one person asked other, how are you? Suddenly the person started looking upside and downside, questioned himself and said: Umm ahaa I think, umm I guess I'm good... I'm okay...

Look at the answer, just simple question is so difficult to answer. Reason; his mind is running with many things.

If you are living in present moment you don't need to think and guess to answer the question: how are you?

You all receive certificate for many things; education, sports, and courses. We don't have culture of certifying happy person. That must come ASAP, else happiness may eliminate from mankind.

How about having one monthly survey for all the employees with below question: Take all the teammates opinion and consolidate, to measure a persons happiness. (At least have this process in fun event to keep happiness alive)


Again, don't rush to Himalayas to certify as you are happy. If you learn to be happy here, you can be happy in Himalayas too, else you will carry all the evils into the Himalayan caves too.


Author: GCV (Vishnuvardhana GC)

Kereya neeranu Kerege chelli

Author Disclaimer:
I’m not a robot to be constant, consistent and complete, I’m a normal human and my blog will be contradictory like director give multiple movies have different opinions on the same subject or different subjects. I flow like a river, I really don’t look for sand, rock, trees, house, and so on. Intention is helping as many as possible before reaching the ocean. I strongly recommend to consult expert’s advice to follow and adopt any methods. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being.