Where Can I be Happy? Right where I am.

Hello, and welcome to "How Can I Make It A Better World?" - All World One Happy Family.

In this blog I formulate my ideas about how to make our world a happy place to live in, for us, and for all future generations.

Every time I hear of a suicide bomber some where in the world, killing himself by inviting onto himself unimaginable pain, in order to kill many others, I am overpowered with sadness. What agonies must that person have had to endure to have to resort to such horrendous solutions to end those miseries. Could something have been done to make him view his predicament in a way that he did not feel so agonised by that situation?

Could something have been done to prevent the situation that made that person feel so hurt in the first place?

I feel the sad when I hear of family feuds, or of petty quarrels robbing one of joy of living.

Regrettably, there is nothing I can do that can make another person think and behave differently to what they want to do. So I am reduced to changing my attitudes and behaviours, thus making my world a better place to live in.

The secret hope behind putting these thoughts on this blog is that some one else may agree with my feelings, and thus, make his world a better place to live in.

Where Can I be Happy? Right where I am.

For decades of my life, I used to think that I could only be truly happy if I was to live

in the land of my birth. That happens to be a city in Western India, in Gujarat.

After being brought up in in the U.K. I chanced to visit my birth place. There, walking along the narrow passageways of the town, I happened to see an elderly man,

in his white dhoti and tunic, seated on the swings in centre of his living room, totally relaxed. He seemed absolutely contented, completely at peace with himself.

I assumed his being so sublimely happy was because he was at one with his environment. (About this time a book called "Roots" about Africam Americans rediscovering their past was in vogue)

Now, after many years of frustrated living trying to find myself being at one with my environment, I have discovered that it is not the place where I am that determines my happiness, but my own thinking that decided how at ease with myself I feel.

Now I can be at peace with myself, like the image of the man I had seen so many years ago, wether I am along the sandy beaches of a tropical island, or in a park in Surrey, or easier still, in my own living room.

Wherever I am, I can observe the beauty of the world around me, and marvel at the

magic behind whatever I sense and see. I can be at one with the world, be at ease with my self, where ever I am.

My world is now a better place to live in since I have recognised that I can be happy wherever I am.

Thank you for reading my entry.

Wishing you all the best, Shree-1