As I was driving my bike my mind started to talk with me, it always talking with me, which I always ignore, but that moment it asked me a question after I saw a man sleeping at one side of a walkway and it was raining, traffic was heavy with lot of honking horns
It asked ‘None of these crowd full of sheep is at peace, everyone is busy with their own mind and honking their horns running behind someone and look at here in the middle of a huge chaos this guy is sleeping, is he the happiest man ever on planet earth?’
I replied ‘May be he is, he is a beggar and homeless ofcourse he can work and earn, such a fool’ I commented
It asked me ‘If he asks money and that is called begging and you asks money too, what is the difference between you two?’
I was annoyed with this question I said ‘I work, I get paid, it’s not begging’
It said to me ‘so does he! he wears dirty clothes and covers himself with all the dirt and pretend he can’t walk healthily to get money from you, isn’t he also working?’
I replied ‘I should have never replied to you’
It asked again ‘don’t ignore me, if he wears a neat clothes, smells good and looks good and put a board “I am homless, can’t walk” will you or any of you in this road help him?’
I started to think for a while ‘Ofcourse we won’t’ said I
It said to me ‘I would say he is the happiest of all, he puts effort earn and live happily. And you put effort too, but runs behind your desires and your marathon never ends’
I replied ‘You are right’
It asked me ‘Are you trying to ignore me? I am making a life lesson here, that’s all I got? you are right?’.
I said ‘No I’m going to post this, let’s see what others think about it’
It read a reply from author Jessica E Larsen and got excited with the answer. (Refer the comments to read authors point of view)
I said ‘Hope you are satisfied?’
It replied ‘I was excited with the answer, I respect her answer and views, but I am not satisfied, with YOU’
I lost my patience ‘That’s it, you should stop asking some insane questions, what people will think of me?’
It replied ‘Well, this is my point of view, you have gone out of my point, I have asked who was the happiest, then you made me ask another question and look where we are standing?’
It was right, one answer lead to another question and the main question left unanswered, now coming to the main question ‘Who is the happiest of all? homeless? or the calm less?’
It replied ‘Yes, that’s the real question, I have a point of view, that homeless or with home and everything, no body is happy’
I passed this question to public again and our favourite blogger Ribana from popsicle society have replied so beautiful that happiness is a choice, well, nobody agreed with you my mind. let’s see what it think of it.
It said ‘I agree’
I replied ‘see, nobody likes you’
It replied ‘It was your idea to post it here, you should have replied me then and there now you are pulling my leg into this, I don’t care who likes me’
I replied ‘that was rude, you shouldn’t be talking like that’
It laughed ‘Look who is saying that, it was you that thinking it, im only your figment of imagination. Let me end this conversation, this begger is happy if he wanted to be, like Ribana said, happiness is a choice, happiness is a state of mind, and being homeless is not a crime and it should not taken for granted, like Jessica said homeless can still be neat and ask for help, im sure we have million of population that blindly helps other people online. Problem with homeless is, our people doesn’t help if one isnt dirty, it is their mindset that homeless should be dirty, because of some people who takes it for granted the entire homeless are looked fake. Now the end of this lovely conversion is I agree with Jessica & Ribana and my point of view is as I said now.’
I smiled to myself for bringing this conversation here, and thanks to Ribana and Jessica for the wise comments. Thanks to my mind that can pull off some mindless conversation ๐ And looking forward to an interactive post in coming days, definitely not with my mind๐
Thanks for reading โจ
You got a twin inside your mind and I don’t agree with him.
“He wears dirty clothes and covers himself with all the dirt and pretend he canโt walk healthily to get money from you, isnโt he also working?”
No he’s not working. He’s pretending. He’s fooling people. Why beg for money? I’ve been homeless too, with my 7 month old son, so I know how difficult it is, but we never PRETENDED to be the most pitiful person in the planet. I’m not saying begging is wrong, but he doesn’t need to go out of his way to look dirty. Even if he wore old clothes, he could at least wash himself. Approach people or sit with a sign like “I have no home, no money, so please give me a job, or any amount of help,” that will make me turn and talk to him.
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That’s a nice Point of view, and well said. See this is why I want to be so open, and look what a transperent mind does, getting a wise answer, he is pretending but he is still doing some work to fool people, that work is still a work and begging is obviously not wrong but as you said, it can be more approachable as u mentioned, pretending and doing a real work have a lot of difference, even if I knew some answer I will still pretend to get such nice answers ๐ it’s a different point of view. and I totally agree with this โบ๏ธ And each one of us have a different experience and thanks for sharing your part of life too. I respect that.โจ๐ค
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I don’t agree with your mind that nobody is happy! Happiness is not being dressed well or dirty…happiness is not having a job or being jobless….happiness is not being rich or poor….happiness is regardless of all these….happiness is a choice that we can make or not.
All the rest are just side dishes ๐
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Well said โจ It is an idea to bring out the thoughts, and I am loving at the responses already. Happiness is a choice, it is a state of mind. As wise one said, You can have everything and stay happy or have nothing and still be happy. ๐ค This is an amazing point of view ๐and thank you so much for stopping by ๐ค๐
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different try and ended well..of course happiness is not about any material possessions, it is not judgemental one..it is state of oneself being with them .satisfaction is an another form of happiness .it will be different to different personality …
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Thanks for stopping by, welcome back after a break ๐ hope you are not stuck in month end ๐ Have a lovely weekend ๐
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This is something that I never read!!
Such a different way of expressing about happiness.. Best one ๐
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Thank You for reading and I’m happy that you liked it this way โจ๐Have a lovely week ahead โจ
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