how difficult is to be happy??

It was early spring back in 2006, I was in third year of my graduation. I was at the time very discontented with life and with proper reasons. I was frequently falling ill, my 5th semester had gone very bad, with me passing in fluid mechanics just by the skin of my teeth. I was also very keyed for GATE-2006, but due to my ill health and various other distractions, even at that front i was heading nowhere, so in such a backdrop i had to goto visit a doctor in Burdawan, which is about 70-80 kilometers from Kolkata, "why go to Burdawan when there are better doctors in Kolkata " , u might want to ask, fair enough but my brother's friend studied in a medical college there and we decided it would be best to consult her renowned professor. There was this thing with going to Burdawan to visit a Doctor, it meant one whole day wasted, with GATE just 3 weeks away it was something i wanted to avoid, and the train connecting Howrah and Burdawan was usually extremely crowded, and to make matters worse i had violently vomitted early in the morning that day. nevertheless i decided to go ahead with the short trip, i was feeling very upset almost indulging in self pity. All that for something which in hind sightseems very trivial, I mean who doesnot fall ill, and there was obviously GATE 2007 which i could appear since GATE is valid for 2 years.
After boarding the train, slowly as each halt approached the compartment started getting filled up, About a couple of stops later i saw a boy aged somewhere between 10-12 years sit just opposite to me, he was very quiet, there was a hint of expectancy in his face as though he was waiting for somebody,sure enough his friend came a stop later. What I saw next has changed my outlook towards life completely.

As is the case in general compartments several hawkers came selling anything between toothpicks to emergancy lamps, a hawker came trying to sell some simple sweets, then one of the boy put his hand in his pocket took out a two rupee coin, tapped the shoulder of his friend and handed him the coin, together they bought some sweet and shared it between them. The joy in the faces of both friends was unmistakeable, strange i thought. what followed was even more startling, a gentlemen sitting beside them tapped the shoulder of one of them and they started to unboard the train, as the train was moving i could see from the window;
" SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND BLIND". I was almost in a state of shock here i was cribbing and complaining,despite everything i had going for me,unhappy about small things and these two small boys despite all their handicaps were happy with a simple two rupee coin. It was then that it dawned upon me that " pain is only as large as your inability to see pain elsewhere". And that it is incredibly easy to remain happy. The smile in my face returned and when i was back, my aunty(who stays in howrah) claimed that i was looking a lot better the doctor she said had worked wonders just in a single sitting, it is not the doctor but two very special children i thought and smiled...:)

Introduction... What to Expect from my blogs?

This was a long time coming since as far as i remember i have always enjoyed writing,but for one reason or the other i have always suffered from procrastination regarding Blogging. I would expect my blog to be nothing but a series of life experiences which have taught me, sometimes the incident might be small but the lesson to be gained from it quite substantial. These small but significant incidents will be the central theme of my blog. The idea is not that I am preaching a school of thought that i have developed, but i would like to encourage you to gain insight from your everyday happenings and constantly evolve onto a better human being. The incidents wont be in any chronological order, nor in the order of significance, but just a random collage of events.