Now, two days after our big party on 2nd April, the Ashram is now back to normal – the tables, chairs, lights and flowers of the evening are gone and the last guests who had come from different parts of India have left.
We want to thank everyone who came, from Vrindavan, any other part of India or the whole world for their love. It is just so beautiful that you all were there and we could experience that evening together. In the same way I thank all those who sent emails, messages, letters or presents!
We had a wonderful evening and actually a wonderful time of preparation, too. It was a celebration of our happiness about our daughter and as the whole Ashram is very happy about it, we all enjoyed the time before the event and the evening itself tremendously. With all the congratulations and all the people who came to be happy with us I noticed once more how important it is to have people to celebrate with, people who share your happiness with you.
You probably know the saying that sadness is reduced by half when you share it while happiness is doubled when you share it. It is important to have people who would come to stand by your side in your hard times. There are friends who make it a point that they would be there whenever you are down. But when you are sad, you can retreat, hide yourself and cry for yourself. You will manage your sadness in this way. It is nicer if you have someone to share with, someone to tell your pain. It hurts being alone in that time.
It hurts much more however when you are alone when you are happy. When you have something to celebrate and there is nobody to share your happiness with. Imagine you want to hug someone out of joy but nobody is there. Imagine you thought you had friends but they are not happy when you are happy. Wouldn’t you feel sad because there is nobody to respond to your smile and laugh?
This is how I am just enourmously happy that we had so many people to share with. With each one of them, our happiness got even bigger!
Now Ramona and I are still in this wonderful mood after the celebration and we feel like we are on holiday. We write the diary to let you know what is going on in our minds and we reply our emails. After that we don’t spend a lot of time in the office anymore but go out and sit with our friends, talk, have a good time and just enjoy the beginning of the summer time, being with Apra and the fact that life is so beautiful!
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By all means let’s share our happiness. Let others see that we’re happy, so they can feel that it’s okay for them to be happy, too.
What a lovely phrase – sadness is reduced by half when you share it while happiness is doubled when you share it – I have never thought of it like this before but it’s true. Happiness is definitely something to be shared, and it is always even better when you can make others happy to as a result.
I actually have not heard that saying before and I think it’s something to live by now that I think about it. Because when I think about it my sadness is reduced when I tell someone else of my troubles and my happiness is always greater when I share with someone else the happiness that I have found.Also there is nothing like the birth of a beautiful baby to remind you about how beautiful life is.