The Search for Normalcy

The natural state of our minds is to remain happy, cheerful, joyful. We strive constantly towards this state. We look for happiness, a smile, a joyful state around us, sometimes consciously and sometimes subconsciously. We, ourselves induce elements in our lives that wreck this normalcy, and then we go about bringing it back; we like to be busy doing something at all times.

Do you know someone who has a good sense of humor? And someone who is high on energy (yet mentally balanced) most of the time? Do you know someone who you think looks innocent? You like to hang around with these people because they make you smile (at least for that moment).

The feeling of feeling good need not be explained. It cannot be explained. It is unbelievably familiar to you. You laugh, or smile, or at least there’s a twinkle in your eyes when that feeling comes across. Being angry or depressed does not feel good. You know it doesn’t. This instinct, which, even in the absence of a medium called language, is understood by everyone. A new born must suckle. Fire burns. Food is good. Same way you know what feels good and what not. Of course then there is all this 'human intelligence' on top of it, but that's where the problem lies. Intelligence is acquired, instinct is ingrained.

So you continue to search for happiness, joy, peace, normalcy without knowing that that is the quest of each and everyone of us.
Have you entered a room full of people and immediately felt ‘This place is so messed up’, you would have wanted to wrap things up and leave at the earliest possible opportunity. On the other hand, there would have been days when you just entered a room full of people, and felt ‘this place is so cool’. You just feel good being in the room. And once you’ve felt good, you just want to be there for as long as you can.

If you are a person people like to hang around with, then there is something you manage to project as a 'normal state of life'. Happiness, contentedness, or perhaps a simple smile. They want to be with you for the energy you manage to project around. Words are feeble, but mental projections of the jovial energy are unmistakably undeceivable. They are received by one and all. You make them happy! A feat achieved without uttering a word or spending a penny!!

For this joy alone, many a people withstand all your whimsical, and perhaps nonsensical ways. They hope that you will give them the sense of good feeling some day again. Little do they realize that they need not wait for you. Same is true for you and for me. 'My happiness', is mine for god's sake. How can you or anyone else control it? It is precious to me, and precious things are not usually given in other's hands just like that. Problem is we try to have everything else in our hand, but give up our happiness in others'.

Next time you are angry, or depressed, I have only one thing to say – That is not your normal state of being, and nature has equipped you with instinct and intelligence to figure out ways of understanding this and getting over it in miraculous time. Go, go now and claim your happiness, your normalcy!

Happy smiling! :)