A Smile From My World

A Smile From My World
Love is what makes the world run around its axis. I’ve known this theorem ever since, but I haven’t been able to articulate the expression in so many words. The realisation dawned on me when I realised there is a dormant apprehension within all of us that whatever measure of happiness we shall hold in our hands tomorrow is not going to be proportional to whatever happiness there is with us today. Tomorrow is an  entity that practically scares the wits out of me.



The most important point is that none of us are happy and content with what we have today. We fear because tomorrow is going to be worse, we should store some amount of happiness today in the form of buffer-stock. This is probably why we strive for more and more happiness today. A pessimist may view the world as destroying itself today, so it is better to have one’s fill of happiness today rather than wait for tomorrow when the world is going to  end.



There is always an inherent wish to get more and more of what we already have. This is where we behave like animals. We simply don’t know how much short of the mark our happiness is going to be tomorrow, so we simply crave for more and more of happiness every time the fairy visits us. Our appetites simply doesn’t get satiated in any form. The truth is that happiness is proportionate to our needs, and our needs keep growing everyday.



The moment one of our needs is fulfilled, another one looms larger and bigger than the first, and we plunge into our world with whatever possible to fulfil the other one, and when this one is fulfilled, another one emerges. Basically, it is to satisfy our growing needs that all of us make all efforts. Needs begin from our cradle and go on increasing and burgeoning like a balloon that can’t be deflated.



Had I been satisfied and happy with what I have today, I would never have made any efforts for a better tomorrow. Whatever efforts I make today are aimed at making a good tomorrow and a better future. There is a tomorrow that is to come, and it is not going to be as easy as today is. The incumbent moment isn’t easy in any way, but I know all its vagaries and intricacies like the back of my hand. But quite soon, the weather is going to be rough, all the more tough, life is going to get all the more difficult. Very frankly, do all of us think on this line?



All of us strive to make a better tomorrow. We dream of a world that is better than the world there is before us today. I really wonder if the ideal world that is better than today is ever going to be here. It is always going to shift to a further point, to a fresh tomorrow with the dawn of every single day of our lives. We are never going to reach the tomorrow of our dreams, a day when everything is going to be perfect and alright.



The truth is everything is never going to be perfect and alright. It is only our perception of matters that is going to be altered. It is only that our perception of matters is going to change in the course of time and this is really all that counts.