How to find your happiness

In an earlier post, I claimed that if you take care of the following three tasks on a daily basis, you can gain happiness in life:

• One thing that is most important for you
• One thing to help someone else
• One thing that gives you maximum satisfaction 

How does helping someone make you happy? Let me try to elaborate this point with a short story. Thanks Jagminder for sending this story with a great insight.

Once a group of 50 people were attending a seminar.

Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each one a balloon. Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen. Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.

Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5 minutes. Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with each other, pushing around others and there was utter chaos.

At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.

Now each one was asked to randomly collect a balloon and give it to the person whose name was written on it.

Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.

The speaker began--- Exactly this is happening in our lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is.

Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness (by helping them as needed), you will get your own happiness.

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किसी का दर्द मिल सके तो ले उधार 
किसी के वास्ते हो तेरे दिल मे प्यार 
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