The Recipe of Happiness

Have you ever come up with questions like How to become happy? What’s the exact way to happiness?
Here comes a simple solution; “Be interested rather than be interesting.”
Confused? Okay, let me explain this simple idea.
The art of “be interested” means you take time out of your busy schedule just to know stuff other than YOU. Now ‘others’ can be anything i.e, animals, humans, books etc. This art can make you a ‘master’ whether of a specific field or a path that you choose for yourself and hence you will automatically become ‘interesting’.
You don’t believe me? No problem.
Are you familiar with a word humanity? Yes? Then you better have an idea about Abdul Sattar Edhi, right? Do you know how he became an interesting personality? Yeah, you got it right this time :)

This week I got an activity #Interested_Challenge from my Amal Fellowship. I texted my peers for a whole day and that conversation only included ‘them’. Strange? I got to know what was actually going on in their lives and that was interesting. I didn’t know one of my friends visited Kashmir last month so she shared amazing pictures, the other wants to join Army after her graduation, one of my senior whom I thought to be an extrovert revealed some surprising things about her introvert nature and another friend told that the most important thing in her life is her friends and many more…
Before doing this activity, I read a book named “How to win friends & influence people” by Dale Carnage and I found some interesting words;
“If we want to make friends, let’s put ourselves out to do things for other people. Things that require time, energy, unselfishness and thoughtfulness.”
All the characters mentioned in the book from Tippy(the Dog) to Uncle George(the Fiddle Scrapper), Theodore Roosevelt(the President) and Edward M. Sykes(the Sales Representative) were well aware of the art of be interested.They didn’t read any Psychology book. They only took interest in others, greeted them without considering their social statuses, treated them in a well-mannered way. This thing won these characters loyalty and respect from other people around them.
Now I am not saying that ‘to be interested’ means talk, talk and talk. This will make you superficial and people won’t avoid to call you a chatter-box. Believe me!
What I learned is;
“A show of interest, as with every other principle of human relations, must be sincere.” ~Dale Carnegie
Concluding up I only want to say that in this robotic world be interested and nice to others. It doesn’t cost anything. Rather it gives a feeling of satisfaction and positive energy which definitely leads to happiness!