by: P. S. GUSAIN

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have
passed at home in the bosom of my family.”–Thomas Jefferson.

The world may be a dreary, dreadful, and dangerous place to
venture into. There may be cut-throat competition in which
survival of the mean, cunning, and bully only is possible. It may
not be a place for gentle, honest, and kind person like you. It
is full of murderers, criminals, rapists, and swindlers. They are
ready to snatch away the loaf of bread from your hand. You need a
sanctuary from them. You need a place where there is love and
care, understanding and compassion, give and take. You need
somebody who could guide and protect you. You need somebody who
could be equal partner in your joys and sorrows. You need
somebody upon whom you could shower your love and care. You need
a home and a family.

Parents sacrifice a lot and endure great hardships in up-bringing
their children. They are selfless in their love and can even lay
their lives for the protection of their children. A spouse is a
life time partner in your days of sunshine and rain. Brothers and
sisters are your friends and supporters. Your children are your
life time fans who love you unconditionally. The love, care, and
support of family is a great happiness. Blessed is the person who
has got a family. And who amongst us has not got one? But we take
family for granted. We don’t recognize it as a great source of
happiness. The more happiness you give to your family the more
you extract out of it.

You are born into a family and grow up within a family. A family
not only provides comfort, enjoyment, and security, but it also
gives emotional and spiritual bliss. In fact, one may find so
much happiness within family that he or she may not need to
search it outside it. The love and care of mother and father,
brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, wife or husband sustain
us. Though love is one and the same yet the love of each is so
different too. A family may extend beyond these immediate
relations and may include grand parents, grand children, in-laws,
uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, and other relatives.

Can all the money of the world buy the love and affection of
one’s parents? Can one be happy without them? How much enjoyment
and happiness they add to our life? Similar is the case with
brothers and sisters. At a later stage of life husband or wife
becomes practically the sole arbiter of our happiness. Man or
woman’s happiness nearly entirely depends on his or her spouse.
At a still later stage sons and daughters become a great source
of happiness. Bertrand Russell said, ‘I have found the happiness
of parenthood greater than any other that I have experienced.’
Family relations give happiness, but at the same time to be a
relation also gives happiness. It is happiness unlimited to be a
son, a brother, a sister, a father, a mother, a husband, and a
wife.

When you kiss your child, don’t you get a kiss in return?

When you hug your sister, don’t you get a hug in return?

When you love your spouse, don’t you get love in return?

Be Happy! You have your family which loves you!

BE HAPPY!

Article Courtesy of :

Steve Pohlit, Business Development
Consultant