SIDE EFFECT OF HAPPINESS

I am a happy person.  That’s the way I have always been.  This doesn’t mean that I am never sad or I don’t get angry.  Both sadness and anger are very spontaneous feelings for me and they disappear at the same speed they surface.  I perceive all positive things as a continuum and negative happenings as episodes and hold no grudge against anyone.  Like all other human beings, I have seen ups and downs, but my goal has always been to lead a happy, comfortable and dignified life.  I feel only in helpless situations, human beings cry and don’t like to see myself trapped in a helpless situation and I make every effort to get out of any troubled situation.

Why am I explaining all this?

For the last few months, I am suffering from an eye disorder and regularly visiting ophthalmologists and taking medicines.  I am suffering from a condition called ‘Dry Eye Syndrome’.  My eyes don’t produce enough tears to lubricate my eyes and hence my vision is blurred and I experience constant infections resulting in irritation in my eyes.

While my ophthalmologist feels it could be due to excessive usage of computers and faulty lighting, a friend of mine has a different perspective.   He feels, because I am single, I don’t cry as much as an average Indian woman does.  (In fact, I don’t remember when was the last time I wept though there were many times I felt like crying).  Secondly, I don’t watch soaps on TV, which induce the audience to cry.  Thirdly by avoiding onions and garlic in my food, I have denied myself a natural source of lubricants for my eyes.  He feels it is good once in a while to be sad!