Its been a happy day ! Its been happy because I wished it to be so. I normally never do wish. I fear I lose the wish if I were to. Many think otherwise. They express it because, how else would they or we know that it was expressed. There is no logic in this summation. Logic often turns mathematical. There are times when one wishes to be away from calculation, to assess, add subtract equate and divide or even multiply. Just look at these words. Add, subtract, equate and divide or multiply. Do they decidedly refer to you only, as on a math table ? To me they represent life and its bearings. Each day some equation is needed to add to our multiplied value, or to subtract that which now has reached beyond division. Each day some mathematics takes over … and numbs us into believing that indeed one can never be too distant from it ..

So I wished that today would be happy. And happy it was without the calculation. Maybe I should do it more often. Not just for the sake of doing that which may not have been done, but for the sake of sake ! I admire those that reek of optimistic predilections. They are not my enemies, but I despise them. Despise them not for what they are but for the nature of what they are. How do these elements of society, gain such predominant will, to assure an optimism, which many never acquire or possess ? I envy their strength in their perception of event or deed. And I simply abhor them when they prove right. Abhor not in the sense often used, but in its frustrated manifestation. How do they live survive and function in the uncertainty of prediction. And I distance myself and speedily, from any situation that demands of me such niceties. They are niceties are they not ? See … another moment of opinion and decision !!

So … I drove into their lair, their den, infested with the glue of firm decision and judgement and awash with tons of soluble, dissolved myself into the pit of optimism. I declared even before I could assess that I would be happy, that I was. And it worked. Perhaps it is time to change the ‘winter timings’ to summer. To extend and expand much like the hours of the day and envelop another climate. A change of clothing, temperament and feel and who knows …it may really all work out quite well !!

When you announce happiness, it infiltrates the environment. It may not be the right place, but at least it is the right temperament. It percolates, it travels, it gets imbibed by others around and whether it is time for them to notice or not, it invariably does get noticed !!

And I am happy today ! And by example I can tell sitting miles away that it will have effect among you as well. There will be a smile of optimism, a lightness of heart, a spring in the limbs perhaps … who knows ? … I do .. I am predicting it and practicing what I feared …

I wish I knew how to print a smilie here … but I know you will imagine that it is there ..

Happiness always …

Amitabh Bachchan