How to find happiness during a pandemic?

Since November, 2019 till date the apprehensions kept on rising for us in the city and the world over. One country having the highest population in the world and it's ego not to follow protocols and with so much arrogance screwed the entire world and got us to confinement.

We have been living in a state of shock, irritability and uncertainty since a very long time. Now, we know what it feels like being an animal in a zoo or a circus. You are fed whatever is available for you, you can only roam in limited space.

Space affects mental state. And the question arises then how to sages and enlightened beings have a statement of freedom and contentment when they are meditating most part of the year in the same place and that too most often in the same position. 

Why can't we be free mentally? Why can't we find that inner joy?

Is that when we are tolerating the circumstances and the people around us who are actually our family and friends who are our inner circle, we call ourselves happy? Then how do you manage the uproar?

And this blog is about my experience which has been silently growing like a bush. A bush because it has grown in different spheres since the last lockdown 2020.

When you want to find happiness in any location, you need to accept the challenge in the situation and believe that this shall too pass. Yes, brains are now wired to keep seeing negativity all around you, but that is only to keep you safe. But humans being social animals cannot live without each other for too long and noone is expecting the world to be without us. So the vaccine will surely grow better all the time. The scientists will not stop. Even they like to be the sepoys in this war of pandemic.

Now since you know that change is evident, you will find out which habits will help you to be different. What will bring you joy, and what will keep you comfortable in your own skin.

It could be even simple things like pencil colouring a drawing book, singing along with a live song, watching a movie with family and being lost in the fictional world, making a spicey sandwich, ordering a dessert for yourself, taking a stroll with your favourite music, whatsapping and chatting with your own family members, chanting and repeating a mantra, talking to your pet, writing a blog, thinking to write a book and planning to print to pdf and sharing with friends, learning a clas online and even just talking to a friend for a bit on daily basis.

Find the habit after you have known that change is necessary.

Many fear change and it's fine. So why do you need change? Because had the change not been evident, ELON MUSK would not have inspired us to think of traveling to another planet or reaching the moon in a space elevator. 

Make it personal

Know happiness is required

Don't have regrets

Have your own world in this world.

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