Just the other day, I was listening to the radio and I happened to come across this ad, which said "now for just Rs. 10 more, you can buy your future happiness!". Before getting into a long diatribe on what happiness is or should be, I'd like to say that I found this ad truly amusing. How anybody could tell me what would make me happy was just plain amusing, in the most unadulterated manner!
And then I just sat back, for lack of anything to do on the way to work, and really really thought about what things that made me happy. To the disappointment of the ad agency and to an extent me, I could recollect this day when I was in the bus and there was a little girl with her grandmother who was having the time of her life by just looking out of the window, looking at her aaji as she called her, and smiling. It probably did not matter to them, at that time, that they were in a crowded bus, which was bursting at the seams, and was stuck in traffic. It also probably did not matter to them that they we what we would describe as 'poorly dressed'.
And it also probably did not matter to them that there was this girl watching them, envious with the slightest hint of a tear in her eye, that they could share this moment of happiness. Pure. Unadulterated and most important,
Free.
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