Spreading happiness and good thoughts
We have been working on it for over a couple of years now. Slowly, silently. Observing, learning, practicing, applying. Traveling across cities, towns, villages throughout the country. My last job was very interesting, revolving mostly around networking, most of which happened online in what we call a global economy. I would make deals. Help out start-ups, entrepreneurs with resources. Push for growth and do anything to help generate value for the start-up fraternity. The leadership was good, the environment was friendly and everything was going well.
Having said that, I was spending 6 hrs a day traveling and 8 hrs in office. It wasn’t field work, I just lived 3 hrs away from the workplace. Changing 2 buses and 2 trains one way. I would leave my home, stand at the bus stop with people, travel in a jam-packed bus with people. Get to the train station and wait there with more people. Get in an even more packed train and travel with even more people. And another train and another bus in the same fashion till I got to the office where then I’d work alone in peace and quiet and a very good aircon. Simply put, I spent a lot of time with people and worked towards understanding them.
I think a good way to describe the situation would be that people are becoming more and more reflexive and less reflective in response to their surrounding materialistic world. The general feeling amongst people isn’t as encouraging as I hoped it to be. People need to realise they are responsible for their own lives and only they have the power to change it. At this point, I decided to shift gears and so begins the outward journey of the Philosophical Junkies Organisation, where our mission is to spread happiness and good thoughts. We think the world needs it, and surely even in excess, it would do no harm.
The idea is to raise awareness and bring about consciousness in people by making them think in better directions by providing them with intense yet positive, fun and happy food for thought. Make them stop and reflect, about their feelings, their actions and lead them towards a better life — emotionally and physically.
The journey is going to be a long one and everyone is welcome :)
