Today while browsing through the television channels, I paused and was happy to see one of my favorite movies ever "Anand" ( which means happiness in Hindi). Its a story of a person Anand who is suffering from lyphmo-sarcoma or cancer and is at the terminal stage of the disease. Though I have seen the movie an umpteen number of times, I was touched by its message in a unique way today. 

Though Anand is counting his days of life, yet he lives every moment whole-heartedly. He talks a lot, laughs a lot, cracks jokes, makes friends with strangers. No one who meets him for the first time can guess that he is suffering from such a dreadful disease and has days which are numbered. Though an orphan, he finds new meaningful relationships during his final journey, relationships which are not due to his lineage yet everlasting and true.

Watching the movie I just pondered on my own life. There have been so many moments when I would have just selfishly thought about myself, seeked attention from everyone around. Never thinking that some one else might be having grave problems and compared to them my life is just so easy. There would have moments when I would have missed to tell some one I love them, what they mean to me and would have ungratefully forgotten to thank some one for their help. The moments that would have been the best moments of my life would have just gone unnoticed because I was busy searching for some happiness which was not there. 

Not every smile is a happy one..but a few smiles might be surpassing the tears within them. How much happy each one of us could be, if only we would try to cherish the present than running behind things that are far away or cry over things which have become the past. Life is for once...it does not matter how long it is but it does matter how beautiful every moment in it can be. The best way is to find beauty in everything. If only one can light up others life and bring a smile on others face..the journey of life would be one to be cherished.