Forgetting how to be happy

Forgetting how to be happy.Can that happen ..? I wondered many times when well meaning friends would say that when someone was unhappy. And I always thought what a stupid line that was.Happiness is our birth right and how can we forget to be happy..Look at a new born child who would smile with happiness in its sleep or when tickled or just played.No one taught a child to be happy it just happened ...maybe it was in its DNA,in its gene or just waiting to jump out when a human needed it.Would someone really forget how to be happy ? No way screamed my logic down the years.

Seeing a butterfly fly and that too on the roses that was planted by you...or when the dish you cooked turned out so well, your husband took a another helping and praised you...when your child took its first steps and managed a few more before tumbling and catching a chair and giggling...and down the years when she managed to complete her school work and bring home a C and not even a A ...well that was pure unselfish happiness and it did not need a invite it just happened ..how did this forgetting how to be happy happened...?

Well it does happen I realized today ..slowly and steadily it does happen. As I gazed from the window as I travelled ..I found that I had no taste in my mouth ..not a distaste ...a no taste...it was just flat..and I wondered what I was doing and where I was going and for what reason..? All seemed so shallow and dull...And I looked at what I was wearing and that too was so dull...

And I forced my self to feel some happiness as I gazed at the seafront and the waves slowly lapping ...and at the blue sky and the butterflies ..not even my fellow passengers invoked any interest in me..And I closed my eyes and to stay calm..that too did not work as my eyes opened and I blindly gazed at the world that moved passed me in a hurry and realized that I have slowly forgotten how to feel happy ...