Thursday, July 17, 2014

A Bucket Full of Happiness

Life is a long journey, a journey with many stop-overs, many fuel-ups required, many break-downs but yet the destination - the climax, keeps us on the path.  The best part of a journey are the pleasant things you pick up complimentary along the way - sweet nothings, a memorable sight, an unforgettable conversation, or just the speed.

No journey can be compared to another, every journey even to the same destination has a different experience. Sometimes you travel alone, sometimes you have company. Even when in company, each person's experience is so different, each one's expectations are different too.  So what makes a journey happy or unhappy for a person? Is it the experiences or circumstances to a person at the time, is it the expectations they have of what they wish to experience, is it the company they have, or is it mere destiny that decides this too?

A wise man once told me "Every memory you form in your lifetime helps you create new expectations." If that's true, then every expectation is based on experiences and so it's the experiences I have or don't have that are responsible for my journey to make me happy or unhappy, right?  But the funny thing is I can only experience to know, and if knowing makes me look back instead of forward maybe we're just build wrong? Maybe, life's journey isn't about looking for happiness. Maybe life itself is happiness and the experiences life bring just take us to our destination with buckets full of memories so that we can think about how much of the happiness we were born with, did we share along our journey!

1 comment :

Shankara Kotian, said...

Well, the photo express everything. Each voyage gives lot of opportunities to garner experiences, happiness & the emotions, at galore. Though, we remain stationary at times,our mind cruises in all mode of journey like a free bird. That's life. Enjoy the beautiful moments of life, that is ours!