A SMALL STORY🔗

Once, in a kingdom ruled over by a very benevolent king, many people came to the king and reported to him that they were in very deep worries. They were reportedly unable to come out of their worries. However the common refrain was that the other person was not worrying! Only he was worrying. This naturally disturbed the king a bit, and he decided, "If everybody says so, why not have an exchange offer? Let us have an exchange offer!" He hit upon an idea and gave the instructions – whomsoever wants to exchange their worries with the others can come and participate.

The function was elaborately organized. After all it is not everyday that one gets to exchange ones worries! In the center of a big plain ground, a big pot was placed, a 'worry pot' as it were. Into this pot, each willing person could throw his worries, tied up in a bag. But he had to pick up some other bag. After all it was an exchange offer. They were free to throw in their worry bag and pick up any other bag. The whole kingdom gathered and there was a festive air, an air of expectancy. Who would start first? They saw each other and started talking to each other, and when they shared their worries with each other, shared each other's problems, the king saw that at the end of the allotted time, nobody was ready to throw in their worry! Nobody had come forward to put his worry into the pot!

The king asked, "What happened?" Everybody said in one voice, "The worry that we already have itself is enough. Now at this stage if we get some new worries, we do not know how to face it! At least we are acquainted with our existing worries. We are comfortable with it. We can pull or push and drag our life along with the known worries. But if we are to get new worries, we will have new worries, just thinking about how to deal with the new worries! After all, a known devil is better than an unknown angel! We will have to get settled with the unknown devil. Because surely the new worry will not be an angel. Who knows whether we will be able to get settled at all? No, we don't know!"

So, nobody wants to even exchange the worries.

WORRY

BLOCKS

HAPPINESS

Worry is nothing but your response to an event. Whether a situation makes you worry or not depends entirely on how you choose to react to the situation. As a child each of us is strongly centered in our own being. Have you ever seen any child worrying about what people will think of him? No!

A child is beautiful because he has no worries. Society makes us dependent on external support, certificates from others for each of our actions and words. Without a reason to worry, your ego loses its reason for existence that is why you choose to remain in the dimension of worry. The way to worry is through the mind and the way out can also be only through the mind.

The solution cannot be found in outer world things. It can be found only inside ourselves. Depression or negativity is nothing but a collection of negative thoughts which you speak to yourself. Crying to get things shuts our inner space. By going behind the past or thinking about the future you miss the present.

When you are in the present, every moment will become a celebration and you will not be searching for past incidents to celebrate. Words are the units of worry. Happiness is different from bliss. Bliss is a beautiful and intense feeling inside you that makes you feel that you are on a different plane of existence.

Happiness or pleasure are most often related to the outer world objects and create pain continuously for us as well. Happiness is relative while bliss is absolute. Bliss is something that has no opposite.