Someone was suffering from terminal illness. He was suffering from excruciating pain. Still he was smiling and cracking jokes. I asked him for this? Was he faking or was he genuinely so happy?
He started laughing again! He said that if he has contracted this, he has been through all kinds of emotions. Life has been pretty stressful. However, after going through both the sides, he found out that what’s more important. One day he was sitting and crying over something bad that had happened. Then suddenly he recalled how his son used to mess up when he was a toddler. he started smiling. He realized that he was wasting too much time in thinking over things which were making him sad. Why he was not thinking of good things. HE was wasting too much time in talking bad about people but why he did not get up and made use of himself and helped people who needed him. He hugged the one who was lonely, he helped people who needed him and he realized he felt better about himself. He did not feel any need of anger. He was happier and smiling. then he realized it’s a choice to choose which side we want to trail. If we want to be on happy side, we have to leave behind what’s making us unhappy. If we are on unhappy side, we cannot be on the side of happiness. So he chose happiness over unhappiness. There is no time for unhappiness when he was happy!
So beautiful. We always learn so much from old people with their experiences and wisdom.
I think we think too much about what bad others have done or what bad we done. let’s get over that. Past really does not matter even if we have messed up or done bad things. What matters is what we are doing now, how we are living now, how we decide to live in future. I Understand, not everyone gets an opportunity to start from zero also, but we can make an effort everyday!
