Happiness Comes from Giving by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown 

Wednesday 24 August 2011 - Posted by smruthi aravind at 11:26

This story is about a beautiful, expensively dressed lady who complained to her psychiatrist that she felt that her whole life was empty; it had no meaning.

So the counsellor called over the old lady who cleaned the office floors, and then said to the rich lady, "I'm going to ask Mary here to tell you how she found happiness. All I want you to do is listen."

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 by a car. I had nobody... I had nothing left. I could'nt 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, so I decided to let the kitten in. I got it some milk, and it licked the plate clean. Then it purred and rubbed against my leg, and for the first time in months, I smiled. Then I stopped to think; if helping a little kitten could make me smile, maybe doing something for people could make me happy. So the next day I baked some biscuits and took them to a neighbour who was sick in bed. Every day I tried to do something nice for someone. It made me so happy to see them happy. Today, I don't know of anybody who sleeps and eats better than I do. I've found happiness, by giving it to others."

When she heard that, the rich lady cried. She had everything that money could buy, but she had lost the things which money cannot buy.

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The First Step... 

Tuesday 26 July 2011 - Posted by smruthi aravind at 22:38
With the newly laid roads by GMR and the Andhra Pradesh Government, the journey was a pleasant one.The survey performed in the places in and around srisailam ended with choosing four places.These places have many underprivileged women who needed an oppurtunity to gain few skills. Skills which can give them a means to livelihood. Yes, we are women too... freshly graduated women who are assured of happy lives.But those women, most of them illiterate, had something which inspired us.. their will and eagerness to stand on their own feet, in spite of the conditions which do not support them. we felt little amongst them,who dreamt higher than us and had a commitment even more higher. The first location was jupally. Their bangle store cum the tailoring training center was ready with 26 women. One trainer and another 25 trainees who were happy to be enrolled in the program. While we were there taking details, one woman from a nearby place requested for a training centre at their place too. Its not just these people... there are thousands of women like that in just this state itself, who cant support their kids education, and don't have a source of income to even live life comfortably.Another woman in the next center, Amrabad had an husband who was very ill and she has nobody to help him except herself. She dint have money for travelling to Hyderabad and get his illness diagonised.Ever wondered why the poor,most often have problems bigger than themselves? Just around the dam is another center at pathala ganga.It is set in a beautiful location, amidst the Krishna river waters and beneath the second largest capacity hydro electric project in the country. Most of the trainees there were young and energetic.The last one is in vanguronipally....and the tigers in the tiger reserve, we're sorry that we couldn't get to you that day since there was limited time. The new dreams took blessings from the srisailam mallikarjuna swamy to be made real.To give a better life,to a hundred women.

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