Postponing happiness (micro blog)

The title is somewhat self explanatory. We are naturally programmed to postpone happiness. First we wanted good marks in school, then when we got good marks we still didn’t celebrate, we thought we will celebrate when we get into a good college and once we get into a college we start waiting for a job to celebrate.

All this while there were so many instances when you felt joyous of your achievement but crushed it down either by yourself or a relative did the job for you.

I’ll give you a recent personal example. I was called by an amazing startup for an internship interview. I was super elated about being shortlisted for the personal interview and was hopping around at my place in excitement of getting shortlisted. Then someone reminded me that I was not yet selected for the internship and there is 1 more round to go.

This is when the whole concept of postponing happiness hit me. I told that person that I agree that I may or may not get selected for this but is the fact that I got shortlisted for the interview cool enough to celebrate. I was totally comfortable with the fact that I may not get selected but I wanted to live this moment and not postpone this happiness.

As it turned out, I did not get selected in the personal interview. But I came back home and told my family that it was good that we ate the celebratory pizza that day because if we had postponed it to this day then the pizza and those happy moments would have never happened.

Celebrate the present moment. It won’t leave you regretting of putting off your own happiness. Go order a pizza right away for your most recent accomplished that you didn’t recognize as big enough to celebrate.

-ChoubeySahab