Flow with your Life to experience the
abundance and grace in it!
We had a meaningful New Year’s Eve. A few of us
friends had got together. Through the evening, as the best of R D Burman and
Kishore Kumar songs were played, and sung, we also had an interesting activity
on. Everyone got a word from Santa’s big red bag that was passed around. Each person
had to talk about the word in the context of the year gone by and what they
hoped for in 2016 in relation to what the word meant to them!
So words like ‘Celebrate’, ‘Miracle’, ‘Serendipity’,
‘Awesome’, ‘Magic’, ‘Learn’, ‘Unlearn’, ‘Inspire’, ‘Happiness’, ‘Love’, ‘Be
Yourself’, ‘Poetry’ and ‘Let Go!’ popped out of Santa’s bag! Most people who
spoke related beautifully to their words, pausing to reflect on what the word
had meant to them in 2015. Someone shared how the year had been full of
celebrations all through! Another spoke of being awesome and celebrating
awesomeness. The gentleman who got the word magic asked us to consider the
magic in the moment when the year changed! Another talked about how spending
time with his father, before he passed on, was an opportunity to re-experience unconditional
love. Vaani talked about her inspiration that led her to resume learning music in
2015. And there was this friend, who did not exactly know what serendipity
meant but realized upon reflection that everything in our lives is, uncannily,
serendipitous.
The word I got was, interestingly, aptly, happiness.
To me happiness is not just a state of mind or an attitude, it is a state of
being. Over the last few years this state of being has helped us as a family face
– and survive – what can be described as, to put it matter-of-factly, a
cathartic phase in our Life. To be sure, we continue to grapple with
imponderables. But we have learnt the art of being happy despite
the circumstances.
Being happy does not guarantee that your problems
will disappear. Or that solutions to your problems will immediately appear. Being
happy, we have discovered, has simply helped us feel and experience the
abundance and grace that surrounds us. When you are happy, you magically see
only what is – and don’t get stuck only complaining about what you don’t have. So,
as we enter yet another year when our financially uncertain situation endures,
we celebrate that we all have good health, we have a home to come back to, we
have each other and that we have friends who treat us with love, compassion and
dignity. Through this celebration, we recognize the grace that fills our lives,
always
giving us all that we need!
Really, it is not what happiness is. It is what
happiness does. It makes you live a fuller Life, no matter what’s happening to
you! What comes between you and your happiness
is you. You are unhappy only because you are trying to control what’s happening
to you. When you try to control Life, you are not in it. You are looking at
Life as if it were a problem that you have to solve. As if it is a third party
that you have to deal with. Instead if you flow with Life, you will find that it is
filled with abundance and grace every step of the way and you too will, as one
of our friends last night exclaimed as the clock struck 12, have a Happywala
2016!
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