No one can be denied of happiness - no, no one.

People think it’s impossible to be happy when you are disabled. When you are impoverished. When you are sick. When you are alone. When you are inferior. When no one likes you. When you are severely disfigured.

But you see – that is a merely a thought, a perception – and one that can be most certainly be broken.

I have seen happiness in -

The poorest of people

The most disabled

The most alone

The most sick

The most ‘inferior’

The most disfigured

You see, such things are but appendages of who we are. Who are we to say – that such things should stop one from experiencing happiness? Of course we cannot say that. Because life is greater. It’s so much greater than the shackles that society likes to put around us, the boxes, the limits. They say we cannot be happy – well let me tell you – oh yes we can, oh yes we can.

It is society’s sin of attributing unhappiness that is wrong. That is depressing – in fact, it acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy to those people.

Well let me tell you a self-fulfilling prophecy that’s much better – no one can be denied of happiness. No, no one. Society might think that someone cannot be happy. But that’s what society thinks. No one can deny an individual from being happy.

You see, in order for criticism to hurt, it requires your consent. In order for mockery to hurt, it requires your consent. In order for labelling to hurt, it requires your consent. It is when you start believing society’s labels, expectations and attributions that things actually start hurting. It is when you deny such beliefs that – voila – one can be happy with who one is.

You have every right to be who you are, and be happy with it.