Sky is not the limit...

O. Henry's literary offsprings - Della & Jim can upset the mathematician's apple cart asking him the difference between 8 dollars a week or a million a year. When I was a student in the college, an essay by G.K Chesterton influenced me much - The idea of cubic content of the mathematician and the sweet content of the poet. Chesterton's essay - The Contented Man influenced me to imagine Attic in an attic. Recently during my visit to Mumbai I saw highrise buildings burgeoning all over the city. Sometimes I wonder those who live in this enormous buildings almost touching the firmament, do they enjoy the warmth of the sun, the width of the courtyard, the openness of a terrace. Life is so easy in a small town or a small village where you get a cottage with a courtyard, a compound, a pretty garden, a green lawn, a few big trees with sparrows chirping throughout the day. Years back I wrote a poem in Hindi- धुप  . In this life of contest and competition I have got everything but a handful of sunshine. Happiness in life consists in seeing books in running brooks, sermons in stones and tongues in trees. The din and bustle of life in Mumbai, the busy occupations have their own fascination. But, contentment is something else. Della and Jim were the happiest magi because they cared for and shared with each other. That is Happiness. When this becomes the idea of happiness, there is no limit to it. Even, not the sky. High-rise buildings will take you higher and higher but sky is the limit. But, in true happiness even sky is not the limit. To attain this happiness, the cubic content of the poet, and to kindle this in every heart is my ENDLESS ENDEAVOR.