Thursday 2 July 2015

Discovering happiness : In depressed environment (Story)

This is a story of a woman surrounded with depressed environment. She wants to be happy, as she has everything and has no reason to be low. Still her eyes keeps on staring a long empty path in search of happiness. She is still discovering happiness.

Sheryl is married and has one child. Her husband is working in a big company at managerial level. Sheryl owns a house with all the facilities. She is well settled in a metro city. Her son is studying in one of the most reputed school of the city.

One day I met that beautiful woman,she had the same glow on face, brightness in eyes and a wide smile as she was in her college. But warmth in her personality was missing. She was loosing confidence, is elaborating her happy married life. All she was trying to avoid her eyes so that I may not look into her heart through it. Soon with some minutes of words exchange she left towards her car, without turning back.


Why was she looking me differently? What was she hiding? She can never be like she was today. What changed her s much?

Sheryl was a very studious girl in her college and school. She was full of energy and life. Everyone was fond of her. She was very active participant of all the activities in the school and college. 


She was very popular because of being an all rounder student through out her school and collage days. From Principal to a peon everybody loved her. Her sense of humor was awesome. She was really adorable.


As she cleared her college, she got a good job in a MNC. Her family and teachers were proud of her. There too her work was always recognized by managers and clients. She was one of the key holders in the team. 

Then she got married to a man of her choice and started her married life. She was good  in time management. Since starting she balanced her professional and personal life, very efficiently. And as there is saying of being a hand of man after a successful woman. Her husband was very supportive to her. 
She was not owning a house, not having maids for help, not very good bank balance to spend on liabilities and not enough time to enjoy life. Still she was happy in her small world with loving husband. 

Soon a new happiness knocked the doors and she delivered a baby. Now she was a mother with more responsibilities and care towards her child. She was able to manage all well with proper priorities. 

But then time changed......Just in three years.....

Sheryl is now depressed for what she is today. Sheryl lost herself in her family. She is a wife , a mother , owns a big house , has a big car , has servants ,has frequent visits of relatives etc. Still she is not Sheryl.

She is not working now. She made her busy in household works and family. She left her dreams and ambitions. She is deligating her responsiblity perfectly. As she is a woman and can be bound and mold.

The society has a number of reasons and excuses to make a woman realize to ignore her ambitions, dreams and thoughts. Even in the companys woman is always a target. And for the purpose her weakness is always taken as target. The weakness of loving and caring unconditionally to her family. We never realize or do not want to realize that we are actually burring her  brightness, happiness, freedom, inner peace and power of her unconditional love.

How Sheryl will live her long life with guilt of spoiling her career and dreams?
How should she find her happiness in her husband and child dreams ?
How should she try to love being at home which she never preferred ?
How should she start a career which is someone else choice ?
How should she love the perception of life which is not the way she looks ?

Sheryl wants to discover happiness in everything but she is unable to catch one. 

Now it is clear, why she is depressed. Sheryl has everything but has nothing. She is carrying a depression which could make her die one day. 

I wanted to give Sheryl some positiveness. I stopped her and hold her hand. I said, " O Sheryl, you are still same strong, positive, down to earth and ambitious Sheryl."

"What you have inside is not depression. You lost your ambitions and perception for life. You just need to bring them out and free yourself from this never lasting discovery of happiness."

Sheryl smiled and tears rolled down over her cheeks. As she is ready to recognize her inner self. She could look into my eyes. We departed with..........questions in our minds....How should she live her life ?

~Shiva

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