BE FOOLISH.... BE HAPPY...!

I am also a guest writer of an online magazine named 21 FOOLS. 'bE FoOlisH... BE haPPy...' is actually their funda. I once asked the co-ordiantor of the magazine, why the named it has 21 fools and he gave an absolutely foolish answer. So I chose to find the answers myself. Does the funda of being a fool work? Does it make you happy? Is being foolish the answer to your problem? Well… I would say yes!

Here, being fool doesn’t mean you wander direction-lessly, you write exams brain-lessly, and you behave conduct-lessly. It just means don’t be too serious in life. Being serious, you hardly yield anything. We just make things go worse. Jitna sochoge, utna uljhoge. (The more you think, the more confused you are).

 
The funda of being a fool works. Choosing your instincts over brains sometimes is beneficial. Following your instincts is like walking on a path with only the torch to guide you. You stumble, you fumble, you fall, you rise. Its all fun and adventure, here you don’t know whether there is any end or no! While following your brains is like walking on a lane at the end of which there is the lamppost, your ultimate destination. So you just have to trace the lane to the point of illumination.

Initially, when I was new to 21 FOOLS, I wondered if the motto ‘bE fOOLiSH, bE hApPY ‘actually made any sense. It’s just lately that the realization came. The more foolish, immature, childish, innocent you are, more cheerful are you. Living life becomes easy! Trust me! My friend who is the most foolish of all, is the most happiest of all too! She wont think much about any fight she had with someone close, any decision she makes, bas jo maan mein aaya who kiya. She lives the smoothest life of all.

The bestest example are the kids around you. Learn to dance and to jump and to play and to be happy and to laugh on your own self and to smile for no reason. If you think they don’t have responsibilities, they live a tension free life, then you are wrong baby! Even they have many things to do. They have the tension of losing their mom-dad from sight, the tension of not finding the right way to their parent’s bedroom, learn their mother-tongue, learn to walk, climb the sofa, learn to get senses of when they want to use the loo. It’s just that we think their responsibilities as small, which in reality for aren’t!

Trust me guys, try and be a fool for one single day and you would know what it feels. I did. And at this point I remember Kareena’s dialogue in JAB WE MET: “Aaditya, tum bhi life mein serious the, kya mila tumhe? Bahut badi problem mein toh tum bhi phas gaye ho na?”. Exactly, life won’t be free of problems, irrespective of whether you are serious or you are a fool. But what do you think is better? :

The best advantage is: People don’t keep high expectations from fools and fools aren’t bestowed with big responsibilities too. ;) Saala, atleast society pressure se mukti milti hai! :)

(I wrote this article for the e-magazine. To have a look at the same in the magazine click here)