International Happiness Day

Every morning when the newspaper arrives, we tend to go to the magazine section first to have a look at the cartoon strips – Archie, Blondie, Garfield etc. 

When my Readers’ Digest arrives every month, I start reading it by going to Laughter the Best Medicine feature before anything else! 

And to generalise the above, aren’t all our actions, including our work for our sustenance, directed towards the ultimate objective of attaining happiness? 

If indeed happiness is our ultimate motto, how come we celebrate happiness day only on March 20 each year that too we started celebrating from 2012 onwards only after being told to do so by UN? 

International Days are meant to nudge us to not to forget or overlook the most important elements of life – mother, father, friendship and above all happiness- by getting overwhelmed by day to day affairs! All the above, more so happiness, have to be celebrated not only each day but each moment of our life!  To put it poetically:

Happiness should be enjoyed every day and every moment of our lives,

As that’s precisely the thing for which we are all striving;

20th March may be the designated international happiness day,

Do we want to be happy only for 60,70 or 80 days out of  those many years of surviving?