If You Want To Be Happy, Be.

Devdas:“Babuji ne kaha gaon chhor do,
sabne kahaa Paro ko chhor do,
Paro ne kahaa sharaab chhor do,
aaj tumne keh diya, haveli chhor do,
ek din aayega jab wo kahenge, duniya hi chhor do.”

Azel: Sunni toh hai nahi kisi kii, bewakoof toh ho hi. Jo chahe karo, bas rona chhor do. 

At one point you realize that it really doesn’t matter, does it? I mean ok, things didn’t go your way, but then they usually don’t! When they do, usually, it’s a disappointment, so I guess by default we’re programmed to feel bad/sad/greedy/blah. I guess it is left to our faculties to decide and program our brain (yes, we all possess one even though most forget to use it!) to make us feel happy, et cetera. No matter what the problem is, that point does come at least once when one realizes that it wasn’t just worth all the drama. It came even for Devdas, but he was too drunk to realize it or perhaps the music at Chandramukhi’s place a tad too loud to contemplate his stupidity, who knows! I mean, wouldn’t it have been a ton better to have either run away with Paro or to have, just you know like, enjoyed all his dad’s money or even just made use of his fancy degree from London or some place and gotten a job or something? But no, apparently getting drunk and dying was better. In retrospect however, even he would have realized that everyone else seemed to have managed fine without all the drama. Chandramukhi kept dancing, Paro kept being married or whatever.

Look at it this way, why do we become sad? Guess, coz well, we are not happy. Ok, fair enough. But, then doesn’t being sad, make us even less happy and eventually sadder? So, basically being sad just makes us sad, so why be sad? OK. Wait, not helping.  Let us look at it in a less idiotic way, whatever we feel and all is basically just a set chemical reactions and electrical impulses, sent by our brain. Our brain functions according to well, our brain! So, if we choose to look at the good things, if we decide to move on and be happy, we will. Logically and practically, no one can stop that. So, don’t choose to be sad. Simple. Well, there is this little voice that usually pokes its nose to point out that, you know things didn’t go your way and all. Here’s what you do, tell Mr. Goody Two-Shoes to help, if it can then good enough, if it can’t well, you really can’t do much about it, can you? So, move on, ignore the pestering little, little voice and choose to be happy, start afresh.

Once in a while it does us good to remind ourselves that this is probably our only chance at life, and even if reincarnation and all does exist, this is our only chance at life as we know it, so why ruin it for something that is nothing in comparison in the long run? No matter how pathetic or miserable you are, trust me you’ve got a better life than most people. You at least have internet connection and the idle time to read this post, which says nothing new or even remotely entertaining. So, just be happy and stop whining, coz for a change you really do get to choose, so why not make a choice that you’ll actually like? I mean really, I never understood why Devdas didn’t take Paro with him if he really was leaving his dad and home and his weird bhabhi and all. Paro’s mom had actually permitted her to run away with him. H-e-l-l-o? Here is this woman allowing her daughter to elope with you and you run away to Chunni Babu? Really? Truth is, we usually choose to be stupid and sad, when being smart and happy is equally simple.