Fragment Of Happiness

Sunny was unfamous for breaking all rules starting from speeding to jumping traffic signals to going inside restricted zones especially the ones which had big boards of “DO NOT ENTER”. He did what one asked to never do! He was highly unorganized in his daily chores which included the clothes he chose to wear to his college, never mindful of his eating habits and never listening to his parents.

His father was quite fed up with this conduct and one day he decided to teach him a lesson. He knew that besides curiosity it was his unmindful stubbornness that pushed him to venture into such activities. After two weeks of planning his father began implementing his idea.

Sunny went berserk as he found the faulty iron box on waking up. As it is he woke up late and rushed into the hour. His fancy bike had no fuel, could not catch the bus either and quite a terrible day back at college due to delay. After reaching home instead of fixing his bike and the iron box he ate and went to sleep. The same routine continued the next day, when he reached out to his parents for the support it was denied by them.

His father offered to pick him up from college in the evening, en route he stopped at a place asking sunny to wait in the car. The building looked older and had a do not enter without a prior permission board outside. As curious as he was, he got off the car and jumped inside the compound wall, he walked around noticing old people on one side and children on the other end. On enquiring he learnt that this building was home to orphan children and the elderly, he also noticed his father coming out of that building. He went back and sat in the car.

He was curious to know what his father was doing here. His father gave him a description of the turmoil the children went through living in an orphanage with minimum facilities. His father spoke about how breaking rules and missing signals injured people for life, not just themselves but others also. Many important messages his dad gave him in form of various incidents and stories.

Sunny thought to himself how granted he was taking his life for. It was a blessing to be alive every day. He decided to be better organized, respect rules and follow what is the right thing to do. He woke up early the next day and organized everything to complete his daily tasks. He struggled few days as all this had become his habit and stacking good habits take some time, effort and persistence.

After few weeks he more stable and successfully broke the pattern of a chain of habits that clouded his seeing life in an appropriate manner. Many of us go through this in everyday life and what’s important is never giving up and eventually breaking the chain of unswerving habits to succeed in life, that’s exactly when we can experience the fragment of happiness.