This is something I just have to share with my friends.

Life can be a process of growing or ageing. Growing involves adding life to one's years while ageing involves adding years to one's life...Life is fulfilling only if it is a process of growing.

Growing up means adding maturity and joy to every moment of life. Without contributing to the poetry of life, nobody can be happy. Many search for happiness but they fail to be creative, so the happiness eludes them.

My suggestion is, at least, start being creative by cracking jokes. When we crack a joke, more than the joke, the laughter that remains in our being is nourishing.

When we cultivate a humorous attitude to life, we help the child within us to emerge.....the child that is in each one one of us and wants to be free. As we grow older, the child inside us is suppressed and hence, our playfulness is also killed. The joy of life disappears when we lose ourselves in too much seriousness.

One of the greatest secrets of life is that we are born rich but become beggars as we grow older. We forget that the rich man is not the one who has the most but the one who needs the least ! We don't search within for the treasures we hold.....

We take ourselves for granted. We only think we know ourselves. We become insensate with the ignorance of what or who we are. And this kills the joy of living.

The body is the peripheral, the physical embodiment...'Me'. But the ' I '...is the self...the soul, which is beyond the body and the mind. Pure, uninhibited, joyful laughter is one way to reach it ....Try it sometime...I think, there's some truth in this....