Secret of Life

 

Secret of life 🎁

 

"Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life."
                                                           -Gregory Maguire

    What is the secret of life? What is our purpose? What is life? What is it trying to teach us? So many questions unanswered.

     Many of us don't know why we do things we just do it, cause we are asked to. But why? What is the reason?

    It's actually pretty simple. Everything we do, we do it in the name of happiness. It is either for our own happiness or for the happiness of our loved ones. There, there is our answer, the secret of life is "Happiness". But this raises the next question doesn't it? What is the secret to happiness? It is quite simple too actually.

    It depends on how we mark our own identity in the world. It need not be huge, a small one but an identity of our own and a good one is more than enough and the way to do that is by helping people who are less fortunate than us. Showing kindness, helping others that is how our true selves are revealed. What we do for the ones less fortunate than us? That is how we mark our identity, that is the secret to happiness and do you know how we get there, we get through the ones we are surrounded.

    Our loved ones, the friends we make, the people who care about us and the ones we care about. They change us for the good, they help us to be more of who we are.

    The right friends are the ones that change us. They are the ones we figure our life with. They are a part of our journey. If we find the right ones they will change us for the better. They make us realize who we really are. That is the secret to happiness "People change People". Once we figure that out we realize that the secret of life is actually very simple.

     "People change people" that is the secret of life and the secret to happiness is "What 'We' do for 'them'". We all want things but we should learn to appreciate what we have. Some people can't even imagine what we have. We have a roof above us, we have clothes to wear and food to eat. We have people who love us, people who care about us. Not everyone is as blessed as we are. Maybe we can't make a big difference but it is the small things that make a big difference. We certainly can't change the world. There is whole wide world out there that we have not seen but that shouldn't stop us from doing something good.

    Helping people brings you happiness and maybe it will change them too and they will figure out the secret of life. You might not be able to change the world but you certainly do change their world and that makes a big difference in their book.

    You guys want to know the best part of life. It is that this secret that we discovered need not stay with us. Once you figure it out make sure you "Pay it forward". So they could figure it out too and maybe it will spread all over the world and maybe someday it will change the world. Someone has got to start and it might as well be you. As Robert Swan said, “The greatest threat to our earth is the belief that someone else will save it".

      I once read this beautiful poem that helped me figure out the secret of life. It is a poem by Diana Der-Hovanessian. The poem goes like this,

Once during the war

On a bus going to Portsmouth

A navy yard worker

Told me the secret of life.

 

The secret of life, he said,

Can never be passed down

One generation to the other.

 

The secret of life, he said,

Is hunger. It makes an open hand.

 

The secret of life is money.

But only the small coins.

The secret of life, he said,

Is love. You become what you lose.

 

The secret of life, he said,

Is water. The world will end

In flood.

 

The secret of life, he said,

Is circumstance.

 

If you catch the right bus

At the right time

You will sit next

To the secret teller

Who will whisper it?

In your ear.

          -Diana Der- Hovanessian

                                 

      So what is the secret of life? "People change people" and for extra marks what 'We' do for 'Them'. 'Them' being the people less fortunate than us. Once we have established that "Pay it forward". This is "THE SECRET OF LIFE".

Blog by: Sheryl Rajakumar

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