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

Meant to be!

Sometimes it's just meant to be

All that you want is not free

All the world's a stage

And you're a mere character in the play

You muse over your fate

Oblivious of the path

You just tread along

Don't know where it takes you…

But there's a belief, a hope

That it'll pass along your way

Your dream, your path

And you stand by the faith

That is enough to cast a trance…

Move along, my dear

Don't you stop!

Believe in your magic

Cast your own spell

Binge the light

Be the glow, That lights up this world

Be the one

That you dream to be

So that one day

Your name stands in the hall of fame…

So that you be the smile

That brightens all lives

You be the one,

Who understands

You be the one, Who is the new hope

Because somewhere down the lane

That's what it’s meant to be...

Nikita Jalodia

Y13 Undergraduate, The LNMIIT

Hang In There...

There are times when we are so sullen and emotionally exhausted that we long for outlets of our emotions. Not that we need a trigger for any catharsis, but we are so choked and full to the brim that in that state of numbness, it is a far fetches thing to realize this on our own.

We have a hard time breathing, a harder time gulping and all we do is to try shaking it all off. But it never works, not for me.

Situations, circumstances or whatever one might call them in their lingos, are so twisted and wicked. No matter how hard you try, you end up in despair. That's when our faith is shaken. We start losing it. Everything around us starts annoying us.

We start to damn that whatever we are today, we were not meant to be.

'This was not my cup of tea!' 'If I were doing what I always wanted, I might have had a better life!'

But are we always right? Or we just camouflage our weaknesses and failures with lack of interest?

Past always haunts us. And low recesses of heart, like these, further invite them to torment us. So, actually we are not doing any good by revisiting that lane.

What we have now, today, only that is our cup of tea. We can't set eyes on other cups. No matter how fancy they may look and how cracked and leaky our own may seem.

There are no guarantees, after all.

There is no room for vacillation at the expense of damaging your present. You are doing nothing but vandalizing your own life.

Hang in there, for tomorrow is yet to come. And there is certainly a moment, hidden in the shell of future, that will change everything for good. Your mind set will drastically differ and you will see your life, once a miserable one, with hope.

Just live in present and you will see, however withered your life may seem, it can still be salvaged.



Mohit Joshi
Y12 Undergraduate, The LNMIIT