Friday, June 15, 2007

Secrets to Happiness

Secrets to Happiness

 

Out of the innumerable ways to keep yourself happy and happening, jocund and jocular, merry and mirthful, I have tried to explore a few and enlist a few more! Not to hurt the reader's self-respect and pride, I promise that even the most discerning of you would smoothly fail to locate and/or dislocate which of the enlisted ones are the unexplored ones. Here follows the succinct compendium:

  • Stay away! Keep off from all articles/books beginning with a "Secrets to.."for the simple reason (you will almost feel like a fool after reading this but I assure you very dignifiedly this was not the attempted end!) that secrets being secrets are afterall what their name suggests: secrets. Thay hence cannot be unraveled and dictated simultaneously keeping them secrets. Food for thought, huh?
  • This is for all those people who have been foolhardy (that is a word that has been invented with the SOLE purpose of letting fools feel less miserable of themselves by calling them Foolhardy and not just what they are: fools) enough to still continue into the article despite the warning above. You are not foolhardy, you are a fool: complete and pure, unadulterated and unexpurgated, unabridged and uncut. Thank You.
  • If you are not getting the clue already, here it is plain and terse, crisp and in-your-face. I am not a man who keeps his promises too often. You atleast know from the way this is turning out to be succinct? Don't you? And if you don't, you are hereby banished to the above bullet for all times to come. That suits you better.
  • Merriam-Webster risks sounding un-enough and takes a shot at defining happiness:obsolete:good fortune:prosperity (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/happiness).I really am not sure whats it about the " obsolete " stuff, but, hey, is happiness obsolete already? That's a rather disarming idea, wee bit uncomfortable too!
  • Since we have already successfully demonstrated that happiness is obsolete, we hereby solemnly declare ourselves smart enough not to dissipate our precious time, energy and resources in its pursuit. Make way Will Smith, you are obsolete too!
  • You are smart enough to notice that this is the last bullet and smart enough as well to notice that I have not introduced you to even one secret to happiness, right? (You are surprising yourself by being so smart, right again?)Take heart in the fact (apropos. First bullet) that I have atleast not cheated you the other way, by revealing secrets and not letting them be!

8 comments:

Garam Samosa said...

Stunned.Period.
Stupefied.Period again.
Vexed. Period finally.
Man, what was this--u can b so crappy n yet so fluid..ooh, u never cease 2 amaze n amuse me..n dear, plzz thoda vocab ka standard hum jaison ko dhyan me rakh ke tay kiya karo...

Chinmaya said...

GARAM SAMOSA
Thanks so much! Actually didnt expect such rave reviews.Thanks a lot.
Most importantly, thanks so much for using this one word "fluid"! Actually WANTED to hear it from somebody. Good that it came in right in the first comment. Am amazed too at getting the very same word I wanted. Thus, this post I deem a success!!!

Thank You.......

Unknown said...

thanx for keeping ur promise till the last bullet. its strange but at the same time gud to find in u a tinge of grrenism(if not greenism, at least crapism :P).....n yes these comments r meant to be implemented, these r not just for filling spaces(i mean vocabs).

Chinmaya said...

ANURAG
yeah, i did want to keep atleast one of my promises. Good that I managed to! And yes, I am in the process of implementing the comments.......You will, I asssure, observe changes sooner than later!!

ronsin said...

haan bhai... achchha bhaat... was'nt expecting at all... neways well done...

Chinmaya said...

RONSIN
Thanks for your appreciation. Thanks.

Zus said...

utter shit one may call it....
but nice way to put it across.
liked the end of it .

Chinmaya said...

YASHU
Thanks so much for calling it Shit!! It was infact intended to look that way. Thanks for appreciating the end(just the end though!).
Thank You. Seriously. I stand encouraged.