Happiness is a state of mind, and we alone are responsible for how we can make ourselves happy. We seek answers outside while all the time the answer is glaring at us from within. Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”

Unfortunately, for a majority this truth is revealed quite late, by which time we have already spent a major part of our lives fretting and worrying, about what in the hindsight can be termed as trivial. In fact the secret to success is happiness. Being happy helps us resolve problems in a much better manner and it does improves our thinking. Our brains also function better when we are happy. Happiness starts inside you. Never put your happiness in someone else’s hands. When you take stock of the situation at a later stage in life, one does wonder what was the need for all that fretting and discomfort that we spent the major part of our lives. That is when you start reflecting on What If…