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Oh, to be happy

by Gyanvitaranam

   This story is about a beautiful, rich, expensively dressed lady who complained to her psychiatrist that she felt that her whole life was empty and worthless, it had no meaning. So, the lady went to visit a counsellor to seek happiness. The counsellor called over an old lady who cleaned the office floors. The counsellor then said to the rich lady “I’ am going to ask Mary here to tell you how she found happiness.

   All I want you to do is listen to her.” So the old lady put down her broom and sat on a chair and told her story: “Well, my husband died of malaria and three months later my only son was killed in a car accident. I had nobody... I had nothing left. I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t eat, I never smiled at anyone, I even thought of taking my own life.”

    “Then one evening a little kitten followed me home from work. Somehow I felt sorry for that kitten. It was cold outside,....

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