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Saturday, November 28, 2009

What is happiness?

It was 11:00 in the Friday evening, I have just completed yet another hectic working day and wanted to leave as soon as possible. I asked my friend who was with me to call the cab driver and ask him to arrive early so that i can get to my bed the moment i reached home. My current work was so boring that it almost made me apathetic. "Where the hell is he? Why is he taking so long?" i was cursing the cab driver and dialing his number again and again... "Pick up the damn phone man!!!".

Finally he picked up the phone. In a very stern voice i ask him to come soon. "Give me fifteen minutes sir, i will come" he said. And within fifteen minutes he was there to pick us up. As soon as he parked the cab in front of us he said "Sir, haath milao". We said "Why?". "Sir, i have become a father" he said joyfully, "I have my baby after seven years of marriage". He was so happy while saying this, so incapable of controlling his feelings. He continued "Today is the happiest day in my life, I have my little one who would take my family name forward". I and my friend was just listening to his words carefully and trying to figure out how happiness can engulf you in your arms that you are not aware of anything else. You are not bothered enough of any other worries in life because today you got the world you wanted. And in his happiness we both felt that we were smiling unknowingly and completely immersed in his happiness. The whole day went by clicking the keyboard keys and rolling the mouse. But at the end of the day somebody else's happiness carved a smile on our face too. And then I knew "Such small incidents in your life or any other person's life is happiness". May god bless him and his child and give them a happy and cheerful life.