New Year 2013!

Dear Readers and Friends,

Wish you a very happy NEW YEAR 2013! There are times in life when we must contemplate but there are moments when we must celebrate too. Celebration is one way to wake our selves from sleep, examine our thoughts and processes, make necessary course corrections and carry on with new vigour towards a more contented life!

Some one asked me the other day whether it is important to be happy or to be content. Interesting question. To be happy implies that we have got what we want and perhaps have received more than what we aimed for. To be content implies that we have found that what we have been looking for actually has always been in us and this realisation sends a warm exilaration through our selves.

Now to be happy or content is the way we look at life. The sum total of our experiences and perceptions will dictate which way we will look. Both are needed in their own right, let me assure you. Some times we must seek and get happiness (in small things) but for the most part we must seek to be content.

Contentment is not compromise. Contentment is being. It is to be what we are and to accept it without conditions and pretences.

If  you ask me, for the time being I am content to share this thought with you. Should any of you decide to contemplate and in the process be happy to have contemplated, well, that is a matter for me to be happy too!