HAPPILY EVER AFTER ?
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Don’t do a job you absolutely hate. Because giving most of your time to something you hate is never going to make you happy in the long run. The job you want to do, might pay you a bit less, but Darling, money isn’t going to please you as much as the satisfaction you’ll get from devoting yourself to something you love.
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Yes, indeed you are very busy, but find time for the things you love. Shop, read, play soccer, watch a movie, or paint, whatever that has always given peace and stability to your mind, do it. Nothing’s going to make you happier than doing these things.
Happily ever after, a notion planted in our heads by romcoms and fairytales. And how we love to believe that it actually exists. But, OOPS, sorry to burst your bubble of dreams, it doesn’t. Well not at least how we picture it in our head.
To most of us it means, merely finding a partner we love, getting settled in the place we've always wanted to and living a mcdreamy life. But that’s not how it works. It does not mean having a trouble free life without any downfalls or betrayals or failures. It simply means being happy in the bigger picture. And a person or a place cannot really define your Happily Ever After. Because it does not matters whether you have a Happily Ever After with a person or a place, the point is that you have a Happily Ever After. And only you can make that happen.
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Finding the right partner is necessary, but not everything to define your happiness. Love the one with your whole heart, so that if they start making you feel bad about yourself or let you down, you can walk away with no regrets about not giving your 100 per cent. Because if they can’t make you happy, they cannot be a part of your Happily Ever After.
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Never let ‘your people’ go. Be it your friends or family or some kin, all those who make you happy, who are always with you – hold them tight. Because money, job or at times even the person you love won't hug you tight and recharge you.
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Know that you are beautiful or handsome, no matter what people say. If you treat yourself right, you are indeed beautiful. Because half the world or actually more than that don’t even know how to treat themselves. And trust me, its the best kind of Ugly.
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Give yourself a birthday present, buy yourself a bunch of flowers on a dull day or do anything that brightens you up – from dull to happy and from happy to super happy. You ought to make yourself feel special about ‘yourself’.
All this may sound like how to be happy kind of list. And to some extent, Yes, it is. But then the little moments sum up to be our whole life. And you never know which day is your last day and while you are alive, you can't pick a day and call the rest of life as ever after. It’ll be in your story after you are gone. Its only on your death bed, that you’ll look upon your life and know 'Was your life even slightly close to this notion' and if yes then since when. And both, you and people reading your story, would want to come across the phrase ‘Happily Ever After’ as soon as possible.
- By Harsha Dudhoria