The Choice of Happiness

Hey everyone!

I know it has been quite some time since I have reached up to you, and that's why I am back here, and with some wonderful news. To start with, my first short film GAURI will be out this April, and the works are being completed in a good pace. Meanwhile the pre-production works for MORS VOLUNTARIA and SHE AND HE are on full swing.

Considering the similarities between the conversational dramas I am presently setting up, I have decided to call the series THE MAN AND THE WOMAN SERIES. This will deal with two people of opposite sexes discussing on various topics. Now that the first two screenplays are set, I am also done with my third screenplay in the series, THE CHOICE OF HAPPINESS. And here is an excerpt from the same.

What can people do when the system is screwed? They ask you to be honest and obey the system that has been built to ensure you a better life, to reap the best of the fruits, when the tree no longer bears fruits for they get plucked before they get flowered. They ask us to listen and obey to the elders, because they have lived long, and hence they are wise. But we are also living in a society where older men rape young women in the name of social justice. Where is the wise thought in that?

They ask us to be nice to all. They always quote ‘if they hit you on one cheek, show the other’, and when you do, you get slapped both ways. They ask us to live as a good person, study well, get good marks, better marks than the neighbors’ kids, get a good job, marry a good person, have some good kids, and in India, that good person is mostly a stranger, then have a good retirement, have a good after job life and then a good death without sins to get a place in a world we still do not have any proof of. And then they say ‘you are free’! Where’s the logic in that?

Are someone’s grades or paper of appreciation good enough to rank an individual? Is bending over to be the nice guy to all the best option to be living in? We live in a world where pioneers like Tesla are ignored, while business men like Edison are praised. We live in a world where when Steve Jobs died we mourned, but when Dennis Ritchie died, we didn’t even realize the contributions that man made to make our lives better. We remember not the ones who leave a mark, but the ones whose marks have been left open by the so called superior people.

Here, we have god men. Here we have businessmen. Here we have people who work less and earn more, and people who work more and earn less. Here we have a system that puts a pipe in our head and drinks everything out, and then takes the credit for themselves. And what do we get in return? Freedom is what they term it. I do not what that is!

I am not asking for freedom. I am not asking for you to seek the same either. But isn’t there a better way? Most of the time we get disappointed because we do not get what we want from those who ‘may’ have promised something, or from where we deserve to get something. But I would rather say that life is better lived when we expect nothing and make everything out of what we have.

If there is something you want to do, do it. If there’s something you want to eat, eat it. Being fat, dark, short, these aren’t problems; it may be for the system, but not for you, and not for the ones who love. According to my understanding they who care for you wouldn’t bother, and they who are bothered do not care for you.

Philosophy is not about escaping questions. It is about questioning the questions and answering the answers till we get the utmost satisfaction. You may not be great thinkers, or great students, you may be an alcoholic, drunkard or even a stripper. But if you are living your life the way you want, you eventually make the world a better place to live. The system, or your family, or people…they cannot say what will make you happy. But if can make yourself happy, then everyone becomes happy because at that precise moment, the universe will reflect your happiness.

Because trust me when I say this, Tesla and Dennis lived a really happy life doing what they wanted to do, the way they wanted to do, criticizing, improvising and correcting no one else but themselves.