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Sunday, 1 January 2012

Happiness Spoke To Me by Fatima Khalif


Stop.For once take a step out of the little cocoon that you call your life.Take a minute to look around.Do you see it?
Wait.Do you recognise what i say..your confused right?
Nothing makes sense you are wondering where you are.
Quick duck!Phew that was close.Your child almost hugged you.You are shivering with terror you have never experienced this have you.
Have you taken your emotions in to consideration lately.What?you dont know what emotions are right?Blasphemy!Did you see that child out on the street that asked you for a penny or may be the old lady that required a little assistance to cross the road.Better yet do you have a conscience?
You look nauseous are you ok?These are pretty harmless questions SIR.All of a sudden you sit up straight finally something you recognise.The leap from cowering fool to self important pig is amazing.You burn your eyes at me.You don't quite like my tone.Hey wait you just had an emotion "displeasure"but..its not much of an improvement because thats the only emotion you are comfortable feeling.
Lets take a trip.Hold my hand.I SAID HOLD IT!
You are freaking out as we arrive at our destination.You quickly grab your nose.Utter filth your eyes are burning.We get closer we find ourselves in the mist of total human destruction.But life was still going on little children were running around playing ball and their mums cooking what little they scraped.Their fathers were hard at work trying to clear up the mess the capitalist world threw at them.But wait what's that "laughter"?unbelieveble in this place?You finally let go of your nose.A child came up to you and asks you why you are sad.You immediately squint your eyes in defence but unbelievable right?You in your $4000 suit a kid that has never owned a pair of shoes is asking you why you are sad.You look again they seem light hearted i can see you trying to grasp a word for what they are feeling...you gasp i can see you almost have it..say it already you blurt out, "HAPPY"!They are happy.We take a look again together. We look past the filth we see the light hearted banter between the folk, the carefree attitude.
This is not right you think.You have being seeing a shrink for the last decade to help you grasp human emotion and here in the blink of an eye you get it! Life is all about the little things.Oh yes here it comes you feel remorse I can see you shrinking.Your thinking how could you be so neglectful all you've constantly cared about the last 2 decades is the size of your bank account while constantly being on prozac.
I have been on this journey countless of times. I'm tired.Im exhausted.I have been around the world making people realise that the little they have is the most precious. I'm afraid ive aged over the years.My demise is soon.I wouldn't trade my life for anything.But its useless wishing I could go on.
I appeal to humanity to take a look around and make sure the people around you are happy. When you realise that they are happy because you had something to do with it.You will immediately get this rush of warmth. Thats happiness.