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100 HAPPY DAYS – Take The Challenge !
WHY?
In our everyday routine life, we do tons of stuff. Some of those is amazing while everything about our day cant be good or “happy”. But as we often hear or read – its all about our perception. If we look hard into our day, we will be able to find something good to be happy about, even on one of the worst days ever. Celebrating big moments or highlighting events doesn’t only make us happy, but more often it is those small things of our lives that give us the real joy. It can include spending time with our family or even having a lazy Sunday afternoon. As long as it gives us happiness, it works. And this is the idea because of which I started the “100 HAPPY DAYS”.
HOW?
I got to know about this concept almost a month after this started. I was puzzled when i saw #100happydays on a friends timeline. Gladly, the friend and Google helped me get familiarized with the idea. It struck me instantly and I loved the concept. It was challenging enough. I mean, 100 days, its not a short time and to be able to accomplish it would be tough. And that’s why I began the challenge, to know whether i can be so dedicated about something like this for the next 100 days and also to explore my areas of happiness. And as the official website said – you’ll fall in love with yourself all over again. So there was that too.
LET’S BEGIN !
The happy days began brilliantly. The level of excitement I had can’t be explained. This was a time of my life which was special anyways. I was going through the last days of my graduation. And highlighting them through the happy days seemed a good idea to me. I went through some big moments during the course of 100 days. Those include
- one of the best ever trip with my best friends,
- getting rid of my glasses after 13 years,
- starting my first ever blog,
- college farewell, and a lot more
SUPPORTIVE/ CRITICIZING PEOPLE
While I was spending my time eating food extensively with my friends and family, passing my time watching movies every week and playing games on my console, there were two sorts of people in my life – one who were extremely supportive to me and really helped me a lot to complete the 100 day challenge. These were the people who often gave me happiness when the day wasn’t going my way and I couldn’t find anything to be really happy about. Another set of people were who thought that this was a crazy idea and I should drop it, and also that I wont be able to finish it. Gladly, the number of these people was very less and so I didn’t loose the motivation.
Honestly, I didn’t think before I began posting “happy day” photos on Facebook. I just started it and was looking forward to see how far I can go. If I hadn’t been doing it on Facebook, I might would have dropped it halfway or even before. But some friends were viewing the photos everyday and were expressing their support by posting their honest opinions and through the likes on the photos.
SOMETHING GOOD HAPPENS EACH DAY OF OUR LIVES
The 100 days of happiness changed me somewhat. It made me understand that everyday has something good about it. We often think that we had a bad day and cry about it, but if we look at it carefully, there is something good about each day. There were days when I had bad times. I used to feel this is not one of the happy days. But i tried to find out what was the best part about my day and it made me realize that it wasn’t that bad a day after all. There is something good happening each day of our lives. We just have to look for it. It may be a significant part of our day, or just a small moment of joy. But it counts as long as it makes us happy. If we can try to look for that “special moment” every single day of our lives, I feel our days would become much better than what they are today.
CROSSING THE FINISH LINE
After successfully crossing the finish line of my 100 happy days, I feel a sense of accomplishment within. I can do anything if I really wish to do it. I just need to have the right level of enthusiasm and will to complete the challenges I take. Even if an idea seems crazy, we must give it a try and do it to the best of our efforts because the “happiness” we get on completing it can’t be expressed in words really. Happiness is… completing what you start.
I had good days and bad days, some awesome days and one of the worst days; but when I look back, I just had “100 HAPPY DAYS “.
– SHIKHAR MALHOTRA
THINK ABOUT IT 