A happy me!
Happiness is a state of mind. What makes you happy and what makes
you sad, is for you to decide. I am extremely emotional. I get attached to
everything and being associated with me. Changing accommodation to changing job,
takes a toll on my emotions. I know it is stupid of me, but how to change I don’t
know. In fact India as a whole is an emotion driven nation, from idolizing a
movie artist to celebrating festivals. We get carried away with the emotional
drift. We are happy on petty gains and similarly sad too. But it is not our
weakness for sure. Our emotional thirst, makes us stand apart, we are uniquely poignant and are ecstatic to
be so.
Woolen's Market
As a kid, I remember vividly, every year the Bhutanese would
come down during winters with their huge collection of woolens. Colorful, soft
and furry! And it was customary for all aunties to go and buy some. My mom was
also amongst them. When I recollect the gleam that appeared after they bought
the stuff at their proposed prices, I feel euphoric even today. However, it is
worth mentioning that the bargains, were often long and tedious jobs, demanding
loads of patience and perseverance. Hence the joy of victory was totally
justified. I doubt whether they ever were at gain, but the emotional upliftment
quotient was tremendous.
Street Shopping fun!
As college day scholars, we would often visit the famous street
market nearby called Hatibagan. It was like a project in itself. Like marching towards
the battle ground with a shield and a naked sword. The bargains over a
neckpiece or a stud, took hours. Yet even the extra Five Rupees off, meant
loads of happiness. Afterall the one extra golgappa with extra sev and lemon
juice, tastes better than all the others and leaves us craving for more. More
of taste and more of divine gaiety!
Pure Bliss!
We Indians always love a little more, an extra spoon of chutney with
the samosa or sambar with Dosa, we prefer it that way. An extra dose of
happiness! And believe me, this makes us unique! This crave infuses extra enthusiasm
to stretch beyond limits to achieve, which might look un-achievable from a
distance. Our spirit ranges from buying an ear-ring in a local market to launching
our Mars mission. We do everything for that extra bit of happiness and
accomplishment. And take the world by surprise with the same.
Yummy!
The
little boy sat with his hands folded and half closed eyes. Grandma was busy
chanting mantra and paying homage to Lord Krishna. And the kid waited for the
rituals to be over. Afterall Grandma has prepared some yummy laddoos for God
and he believes he deserves a meaty share for stopping himself from stealing
some. After the puja when she places a huge one on his little palm, he looks
disapprovingly at the wrinkled face. “More?” she asks and places another. The
kid runs to his little sister with a smile and gives her a small share of his
belongings. The little girl looks at her big brother disappointed. “More?’’ he
asks and places a bit more on her even smaller palm. She giggles with gaiety
and gives a little to her doll sitting by her. By some gesture, I or you might
fail to appreciate, she knows the doll wants more and bestows it the luxury.
We Indians grow not only with the idea of getting more, in the
process we also learn giving more. We give more to our relationships and
strengthen it. No wonder we are known for family values. We give more to
professional commitments and achieve many a milestones that bewilder the world.
And hence since we give more, don’t you think our zest to getting extra is
justified. Jokes apart, actually we Indians are emotional enough to derive that
extra bit of happiness both by giving and taking more.
Hence we can safely say that “Paisa vasool” runs in our Indian
veins, making the newly launched Lufthansa Premium
Economy Class exceedingly lucrative to us. To avail this world class
facility, true we might need to pay a little more than normal economy class travel,
but what awaits in return justifies the minimal extra expense. Afterall we all
desire and deserve to live life king/queen size, at least for a little while. And
this facility is just that, world class service and comforts, i.e., a lot more
by paying a little extra. Sounds cool right? For more details click on the
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Let us use this service and derive the million dollar pleasure
of that extra golgappa or that little extra chilies added to our veggies
basket. Let’s us celebrate our art of deriving extra pleasure from that little
extra.
Aritra Chakrabarty Sengupta
Well explained Mind blowing!!
ReplyDeleteThank u so much :-)
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