Peace, ambition and happiness

Bollywood has always inspired me to break unbroken boundaries and explore what was previously unthinkable. This might come as a surprise to someone who thinks that Bollywood is only a name given to a kind of cinema that portrays a make believe world, not representing reality. Nothing can be further from the truth. Actually, it depends on your ability to decode scenes and interpret suttle actions and gestures of characters into something more meaningful. Understanding what motivates some people to do what they do. Trust me, I am still speaking about Bollywood.

So what does this article have to do with my title? Yesterday I saw Luck By Chance (LBC). The movie raised quite a few vital points. Is there a difference in being content and happy? My interpretation was always that if you have no aspirations, you are content and you will be happy. I have discussed about this in few of my earlier articles written in 2006. However, LBC goes a step further and says that being content is in your hands. You choose in life that the life you are living, would you call that a success or failure. If you believe in what you do, make yourself believe that you are a success when compared to others who have been a part of your past, then you choose to be successful and thus happy. For instance, if you are a married woman and a working as a French teacher at age 28, the choice is yours, to decide if you are successful or not. You could convince yourself that you are a failure in life because you have a childhood friend who works as an IT manager and earns much more than you do. Or you could be successful by interpreting your life as that of being successful in your family life (good marriage) and doing a job you love to do. Will that IT manager be able to say the same? Maybe not, after all who dreams of becoming an IT manager as a kid. What do you mean by success, becomes terribly important. Is money the only parameter? Or is love for your family and work a more important factor? The choice is yours to make. You choose success in life, not your destiny.

Achievement is only a state of mind, you can achieve it.