Holi has started in Vrindavan! If you don’t know Holi yet – it is a huge and wild colour festival which is celebrated on one day all over India but in our area for a complete week! The origin is a kind of thanksgiving celebration, the end of the harvest, and today just everybody plays jokes on each other, throws coloured water and water powder on each other. It is quite a bit of a mess – and huge fun, too!
A lot of people think Holi is a celebration for children. While they, of course, look forward to this nearly the whole year long, it is so much fun for adults as well! And if you cannot see the fun in this at all, I would say, you are doing something wrong! I tell you, this is not only about Holi but about any kind of celebration that you skip due to one of the following reasons.
Maybe you feel that you are too busy to enjoy such a celebration. I know exactly that you probably have a whole lot of work. There are projects to take care of, calls to be made, meetings to be held and paperwork to be done. You have the busiest time of your life and cannot get away from your computer or customers.
Maybe you are upset about something and think you are not in the mood. You sit in your room and find that you are too depressed and just in a too bad mood for being happy right now.
Both of these are nonsense! What is life for, what remains of your life if you are at all times too busy to celebrate, too stressed to enjoy life? And don’t you think that your mood would actually improve by celebrating, by being among others who are happy and jolly?
If you don’t go out now and enjoy with your kids, your partner, your friends or even just enjoy yourself, you will have a day in future when you will regret. If you go out and enjoy now, you will not only be happy now but you will have many hours of happiness over lots of years to come! All the memories you create – don’t miss out on this!
Sometimes it just takes a little change inside, an active switch, a decision to join a celebration – and be happy!
Related posts
Diwali at the Ashram with Lights, Sweets, Friends and Fun! – 11 Nov 15
Join us for the Colour Madness at Holi 2016! – 22 Oct 15
Another Celebration and a Surprise for the Children – 19 Oct 15
Celebrations – a Mirror of Eastern and Western Culture – 23 Oct 14
Happy Holi 2014! – 17 Mar 14
Celebrating Birthdays, Holi and being together! – 27 Mar 13
Sadness is not the right Mood for Celebrating Christmas – 24 Dec 12
Diwali Celebration at the Ashram – 14 Nov 12
Celebrating Diwali – not for Worship but for Happiness – 13 Nov 12
