Holding on my Head - Meenakshi Choudhary

I am holding on to my head

Mountain of expectations

Walking on the path of my life

With boundaries of relations

My balloon of love was ruptured

By religion and culture

My life is pointless and boring

With nothing to nurture

The world is running

For the rain of the fame

For their own mistakes

They just want someone to blame

I just ignored them all

When I should have fought with them

But I wasn't knowing

They play this filthy game

Within no time

I was now left in shame

No one even bothered

To come and feel my pain

Now I am jobless

Waiting for a hopeful ring

What's left in me

Is just a confused being

This world to me

is like a roofless home in summers,

At nights I feel peaceful,

and whole day sun hammers

It has windows, walls doors

To divide me from others

Nothing we talk rather

Then just useless matters

With jealousy of others

my windows shatter

I don't have a lover,

so I don't care about the haters

I end my beer bottles

Till I burst my bladders

I sing all songs in blabbers

Coz for me, nothing matters.

Meenakshi Choudhary

Class - XII Science     

The Fabindia School        

Happiness - Yukti Kansara

To understand happiness, one must understand that happiness is not just about success, money, or fame. Real happiness lies in gratitude, doing what you adore, expressing yourself, doing good deeds, or more, but it cannot be described in one word or sentence. It consists much in the small term. It occurs every day in everyone's lives, but it depends on how you find it or what you find it.

I remember an activist, Muniba Mazari, from Pakistan. She is disabled by her legs, but she doesn't let her disability come between her happiness, so why we let our thinking and society come between our way of happiness.  Even writing about this is my happiness as our teacher trusted us and allowed us to express what we think about happiness. Taking an opportunity and doing it from the deep of your heart,  enjoying it, and putting effort into it without any pressure or force is happiness. Even I enjoy it from the deep of my heart and mind. 

At last, I'll say it is a choice where you have to decide that it should be in your life or not. We only become happy as much as we decide to be, and if you are happy, you can fill others' life with happiness. Last but not least, I'll put an end to my article by saying, "Happiness depends upon us. Be happy and make others happy." 

Yukti Kansara

Class IX A

The Fabindia School
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