It’s interesting to note that we all seek happiness and contentment from external factors and we hope that the presence of these external factors in our lives will play its role in changing our environment for the better. These external factors may have their relative significance, but from time immemorial the learned lot of our civilization have been sounding us off on an important message and i.e happiness and contentment is in the present, not something that we to seek for in the future. This message may sound like an illusion to some of us, but interestingly reality jolts us when we see the children in our homes, live this happiness right before our own eyes in the present. My child, by design, lives in the present not bothering about the next moment or recapturing the previous day, interestingly when she lives in the present without any baggage of the past or future what remains is happiness for her. I see happiness in the child’s eyes dancing a million steps every second, I see happiness echoing in every word she utters, I see happiness and joy in the way she celebrates her life, day in and day out.

Seeing the little child a great realization dawned upon me and that is – when I don’t carry the baggage of past or future what remains in my present is only happiness. This is so similar to, when I am not sick what remains is health. So by design we are healthy, it’s only in the interim we are exposed to ill-health temporarily, once the ill-health is treated with appropriate medication, what again surfaces is health. Likewise, what I am by nature is ‘happiness’ in the present and that’s by design, its only in the interim exposure to life, desires take shape in us and in being hooked to those desires, we live in a world of future aspirations or past glories/regrets around those desires, thus missing out on the present. On the other hand a life of content enables me to recognise my presence, thereby facilitating me to live in the present and experience the true self in me,  the state of pure happiness.

So happiness in the present is not an illusion, the illusion resides in our state of mind when we choose to dwell of the future possibilities or past glories/miseries. Once we remove this illusion, then  what remains within us is un-adulterated pure happiness in the present. If not possible always, atleast once a while its worth living this life in its present glory.. to live for this moment, for this one enternal intense moment of life wherein we can been soaked in the depth of happiness, experiencing the extremity of ecstacy,  where  intensity orchestrates the symphony of life for us to get entrenched into.

Afterall, we all deserve the best and nothing else other than the best in this life, so lets present ourselves with the best present... to live in the present.

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