We all know the story of Pandora’s Box and how our lives
revolve around that one last thing which was in it.We all have our dreams and
we live each day with the hope that they will come true.Hope keeps us going
and everyone in this world has hope if not anything else.
On the way of our dreams we come across many people some
stay with us for a while, some stay for long and some of them act as critics.
But no matter what all of them makes some contribution to our lives.
I always thought how I can find that one thing which controls
our happiness and now after all these years being away from home and being with
unpredictably good and not so good people around I found that they are the ones
who control the happiness in our lives. Whenever we are happy or sad it is only
because of them. We celebrate, go out, fight, watch movies, eat, cry, shop, work
and hence build experiences with them. So does it mean we would be happy
forever if we choose those people who make us feel wanted, makes us happy, care
about us and about those small things which we like or hate and makes us love
them back? It’s easier said than done. People are the most difficult to handle
and we cannot predict their views and attitudes as they change with time and
experience.
We all have people in our lives who love us but somewhere
down the years their love starts fading. They no more take efforts to make us happy,
give us small moments of joy to light up our lives. Can this happen that
someone is so used to our existence in their lives that they don’t really care
about anything else than we breathing next to them? I don’t know may be some of you would agree
and others may not , but what keeps us
alive is that we still hope that one day
that person would realize and start mending the relation and we would be on
happier terms again. But the question is how long one should wait for such a
thing to happen or may be how one should decide whether the person is worth the
wait. Or else should we do a tit for tat like if you don’t care I stop caring
too..!!
Ultimately it is very humane of us to seek happiness and peace
with all the people who are crucial to us and whom we don’t want to lose. We
all make mistakes and when we realize and want to correct ourselves all we need
is a second chance. Life is about second chances. We should learn to forgive so
that we all can grow as individuals, leave bad things behind and give ourselves
the second chance to be happy and make everyone around us happy because without
it life would not go on.
I remember a great quote of Gandhi which would be very
apt for me to conclude with “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
