The #100Happydays challenge is to experience and share happiness for 100 consecutive days.
I am still trying to figure out how I will combine my happiness experiences and the observations and learnings along the way in a shareable way across the multiple platforms of this blog, Facebook and Twitter.
The reason I have this dilemma is because I don't believe that happiness or joy can be experienced or appreciated in isolation. Life offers us many different questions or options and all of them lead us onto newer directions or experiences. There are multiple choices we face each moment and the roller coaster of emotions that come along with them.
So happiness is never complete unless I have experienced failure or sadness. Only when I accept the stumbles, pains or sorrows, how can I truly cherish those special moments and joys of life?
Maybe I will limit the Facebook updates to daily happiness sharing and use this blog to capture every other experience. Not completely clear yet and some more experimenting will help make it all seamless and clear.
Seeing efforts made by others to make a bigger contribution towards our society moves me. Watching Satyamev Jayate today was an emotional experience as it must have been for most of the audience around the world. The crusade that one of our finest and most sensitive Bollywood stars (Aamir Khan) has started is noble and needs to be complimented.
More than that, it needs the active participation of each and every one of us in changing our personal value systems, our definition of the civic and humanitarian responsibilities that we need to own up to beyond the meager boundaries of our own and our family safety, security and comfort of life that we currently believe to be the comfort zone within which we need to live our lives.
The day today was a mixed one for me. Of course had enough moments of pure joy, but these were mixed with realisation that there is a lot more to do....to improve, to learn and to contribute. Otherwise, the happiness will feel just like a cocoon and basically hollow. Without setting any targets or ambitions, I am embarking on this journey. My thinking is that if we were meant to live scripted lives with pre-set targets, milestones or destinations, we would all have been born with goal sheets and have annual appraisal reviews.
I am still trying to figure out how I will combine my happiness experiences and the observations and learnings along the way in a shareable way across the multiple platforms of this blog, Facebook and Twitter.
The reason I have this dilemma is because I don't believe that happiness or joy can be experienced or appreciated in isolation. Life offers us many different questions or options and all of them lead us onto newer directions or experiences. There are multiple choices we face each moment and the roller coaster of emotions that come along with them.
So happiness is never complete unless I have experienced failure or sadness. Only when I accept the stumbles, pains or sorrows, how can I truly cherish those special moments and joys of life?
Maybe I will limit the Facebook updates to daily happiness sharing and use this blog to capture every other experience. Not completely clear yet and some more experimenting will help make it all seamless and clear.
Seeing efforts made by others to make a bigger contribution towards our society moves me. Watching Satyamev Jayate today was an emotional experience as it must have been for most of the audience around the world. The crusade that one of our finest and most sensitive Bollywood stars (Aamir Khan) has started is noble and needs to be complimented.
More than that, it needs the active participation of each and every one of us in changing our personal value systems, our definition of the civic and humanitarian responsibilities that we need to own up to beyond the meager boundaries of our own and our family safety, security and comfort of life that we currently believe to be the comfort zone within which we need to live our lives.
The day today was a mixed one for me. Of course had enough moments of pure joy, but these were mixed with realisation that there is a lot more to do....to improve, to learn and to contribute. Otherwise, the happiness will feel just like a cocoon and basically hollow. Without setting any targets or ambitions, I am embarking on this journey. My thinking is that if we were meant to live scripted lives with pre-set targets, milestones or destinations, we would all have been born with goal sheets and have annual appraisal reviews.
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