FINDING TRUE LOVE AND HAPPINESS

Each day, many people work hard and harder until they are worn out at their own displeasure all because we are eagerly searching for happiness and true love in life, marriage, work, family and the list goes on. A lot more have done so many things even against their own wish and to their own displeasure in the name of finding happiness and fulfilment in life. 

Unfortunately, we do all these things but the situations aren’t getting better and frustration turns to stare us in the face. The question is how then do we become happy in life? How do we find happiness in our relationships, marriage and life?

One day, a group of 50 people attended a seminar about finding happiness in life. When the auditorium was full to its capacity, the speaker appeared on stage and could read the high expectation on the faces of the participants. He could see a lot of unhappy people who seemed worthy and achievers in life but there was a missing element of happiness in their life. 

Suddenly, the speaker stopped and decided to do a group activity. He started giving each one a balloon. Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen. Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.

Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloons which had their names written on them within 5 minutes. Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with each other, pushing around others and there was utter chaos. At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.

Now each one was asked to randomly collect a balloon and give it to the person whose name was written on it. Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.

“This is exactly what happens in our life”, the speaker began to talk. “You were all very eager and desperate to find your own balloon causing stampede and chaos to other people. The search for your own balloon or happiness rather causes discomfort to other people but when we seek the happiness of others, we in turn receive true love, happiness and all the good things that we desire”.

“It is not enough to fall in love. Much is required of you to ensure that you give true love even if the situation is not as you expected it. A man can only receive and reap what he has given and sowed respectively”, the speaker concluded shortly.

Today, there are a lot of people who are not happy and feel unloved all because they are always expecting their partners to show them the most sizzling and unconditional love when they are rather not sowing the seed of love and happiness.

Do not be deceived, a man can only reap what he has sown. Let’s give out love and receive love! Let’s make other people happy and receive happiness back in life.