Trailing Happiness

Happiness is not something that comes your way. It is something that depends on what you desire in your life and how you decide to lead it. After beginning my college life, I realized that I had been running after an illusion so far. When we go to high schools, we are told that life gets easy when we start our college life and when the college life becomes our present, we are made to understand that getting placed in a good company is the beginning of our happy lives and this cycle continues on and on... How hard is it to stop and think for a moment about how all of us have been running here and there in order to survive in this cut-throat competition that we face on a daily basis? 

Nathaniel Hawthorne has quoted the lines below-

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

It has been rightfully said that much of the happiness is overlooked because happiness is just like the sand that slips through our fingers in a blink of an eye, the moment when we busy ourselves in pursuing the illusions of worldly desires that never cease to exist in our busy lives.

Is it so hard to be happy? Is it so hard to catch the fleeting moments that may lead to a happy beautiful feeling that life gifts us with? We get so involved in our delusional lives that we fail to admire the gifts that we come across quite often. What have we obtained from such a breathless life where we end up exhausted physically and morally.

There is no happiness 'tomorrow' if we can't be happy in our 'today'. Doesn't it feel good to watch the sun rise slowly in the sky? A serene atmosphere dawns on us leading to a bright morning ahead. Haven't all of us enjoyed the warmth of the sun on chilly Sunday mornings? Sometimes, we do need to give ourselves a break from this monotonous life and do something worth-while. That feeling is really wonderful. After all, every moment should be enjoyed and savoured to the fullest.

Watch a child laugh and smile

You'll feel happy for a while 

Let the world push you down 

But do come up without a frown 

Make each day count 

Make every moment matter 

Live your life now to its fullest 

Don't wait to enjoy in the coming days after...! 

Build a circle... 

Quickly jump in 

Troubles all out 

Just happiness within 

Smile through your folly 

Smile through your way 

Smile through your hardships 

And brighten up your day. 

Tanya Jha

Y13 Undergraduate, The LNMIIT

Indian Women And Army

Although India has adapted very fast in accordance with the changing trends, something which still lacks change is the condition of women. Women have been suffering from hard repression since centuries, and still in the modern world of 21st century they are facing more or less the same problem.

Take for example army. Although Indian women have been given place in the Indian army, but they are still viewed as incapable when compared to men, as they are still not under permanent commission.

I don't know what has happened to our thinking… What is the reason for all this?

Do we consider our women weak as if they can't do physical work? I would stress upon the fact that in some places they still carry a pot of 20 kg on their head and walk miles… Can't they carry a gun in their hands, just as they help the farmers in the farming work?

As for the denial of an Officer’s rank in the Indian Army, I can’t understand the logic. They, in fact, have great management skills, the live examples being our homes that are still managed by our mothers.

The main reason is that most of the JCO's and jawans who hail from the villages are still not able to accept women as their leaders in the combat situations. And some women officers are unwilling themselves due to family background and responsibilities.

So we all need a united effort to change the present situation, because then only it will give the women confidence that they are equal in all respects.

Women SHOULD be given their rights and we should all extend our encouragement and support to them.


Jai Hind!

Kushagra Sharma

Y13 Undergraduate, The LNMIIT, Jaipur