Good morning friends
Yesterday, I called our local store for home delivery of some groceries. Normally, whenever I call this store, a cheerful voice answers the phone. He recognises my voice immediately, knows my flat number, takes the order cheerfully and that’s why I feel good when he picks up the phone. I too, can recognise him from his voice and way of talking. When I see him in the store, he is always smiling, ready to help, willing to sort out difficulties. Yesterday, however, a grumpy voice answered the phone. I recognised this person too, from his voice. I could picture him in the store, no smile on his face, not really interested in customers, looking thoroughly bored all the time. I don’t feel like talking to him much on phone or in person. When I was thinking about this, I became conscious of the fact that we can relate so much more easily to someone who is smiling and cheerful. On the other hand, we generally avoid talking to people who are grumpy, who look depressed or seem uninterested in anything.
My sister-in-law who underwent a surgery recently was praising her surgeon… how he is always smiling, how he brightens up the atmosphere with his entry in the room, how he is able to reassure his patients with his smiling countenance.
When someone is bright and cheerful, they transmit their positive vibrations to others just through their presence or even their voice on phone. Obviously, the opposite is also true and grumpy people transmit their negative vibrations through their presence or voice…. And perhaps that’s why people tend to avoid the grumpy ones and reach out for the cheerful ones.
Being happy is an art and I think it’s the most important of all important things in life. Unfortunately, though, none of the schools and colleges have included this subject in their curriculum. So we can learn this art only from the University of life ! And life certainly teaches us this art if we are willing to learn. Once one awakens to the realisation that your time on earth is limited, it becomes easy to master this art. Speaking for myself, when I was presented with the diagnosis of cancer 8 years ago, I started walking on this path; and the journey has really been beautiful. For me, cancer was the biggest teacher …when you are faced with death, you don’t want to waste your time feeling anything but happy and cheerful.
Of course, there are days when I stray away from the path, but invariably I am able to return to it.
I hope that all of us are surrounded by souls trying to master this art of Being happy,
Love,
Anjali Bhatawdekar
