Happiness and Tolerance: Rahul Kumar Thakur

Happiness is the state of well-being characterized by emotion ranging from contentment to

intense joy. Happiness can be through biological components, learned components, and cognitive component. Good environment, good friend circle, good facilities make me happy. 

We can overcome our unhappiness by giving interest where we really feel enjoyment, peace of mind and prosperity. Happiness is the key to achieve any success. Today happiness is more important in the classroom and in school so that the students can keep interested and listen throughout the lesson. To keep students happy we should do some recreation activity before starting the class or say some inspirational stories to them.

Tolerance is respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world’s cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human. It is fostered by knowledge, openness, communication and freedom of thought, conscience and belief. Tolerance is harmony in difference.

To conclude, happiness has some influence on tolerance of diversity, however, it is not a determinate and not able to predict tolerance levels.

Rahul Kumar Thakur

The Fabindia School

Happiness and Tolerance - Prakash Dangi

I believe that tolerance is happiness. Tolerance can be defined as a fair and objective attitude towards those whose lifestyle differs from yours. When I am living without tolerance, I am fighting my own happiness. I have learned that everyone in this world is doing the best they can with what they have and with what they know. I have also learned that I do not always know or understand what another person is experiencing on any given day and that when I cross paths with someone who may seem selfish or rude, or intolerant, that person may be going through a rough period of life and experiencing severe pain, loss or grief.

Tolerance is one of those qualities that form the bedrock of society. The world is a much smaller place today.  More people from different nations, cultures, religions and lifestyles are working together and living in the same neighbourhoods than ever before. Tolerance does not mean giving up one’s own way of life. Tolerance is following the motto “Live and Let Live!” Tolerance just understands another person’s beliefs, practices and habits without necessarily accepting them or following them. It is simply being a little unselfish. It is adjusting to others a little, giving up just a little to make someone else happy. It understands that everyone has, more or less the same basic needs as oneself. It is realizing that ultimately everyone wants to be happy and peaceful.

Happiness doesn’t happen out of anywhere – it has to be worked on; it has to be produced, created, discovered, built from the ground up. And it has to be a decision in one’s mind: the decision to be happy. Happiness also is dependent upon how one spends their time, as in their job. Happiness has defied definition. Most people tend to equate happiness with fun, good living, plenty of money. If happiness were synonymous with this, entire rich people with all their luxuries and countless parties would be perpetually happy. But in actual fact, they are frequently acutely unhappy despite their riches and ability to indulge in fun activities at will. Fun is what we experience during an act-happiness is that intangible something we experience after an act. We may have fun watching a movie, going shopping, meeting friends-these are all activities that afford us fleeting moments of relaxation and enjoyment. Happiness, on the other hand, is a much stronger, and deeper. The meaning of happiness is contentment and satisfaction. Finding true happiness is a worthy goal. The problem is many turns to material possessions to reach that goal. 

Prakash Dangi

The Fabindia School

Read for Enjoyment and Improvement: Urmila Rathore

We all know that human beings have the power to gain knowledge from everywhere and everything. Every day we think about our own growth and try to do the best in our fields but sometimes we are dissatisfied at the roots of our soul and mind. That time we should think of improving our knowledge and give best to ourselves by crossing the barriers of our own personality. Mostly we read with some kind of pressure, be it of presentation or of examination and forget that reading is for our growth and enjoyment and develops body-mind integrity. I always ensure that my students read a chapter aloud in a classroom or at the terrace or any open area at the home so they can be able to remove all the negativity and improve their reading skills. Reading creates a learning environment around the learner.

Here is some importance of reading :

●  Knowledge Empowerment and Improve thinking skill: Reading is the most powerful weapon to defeat our weaknesses because reading can solve all our problems related to gaining knowledge and getting results, so when we read then we come to know about our learning weakness and we will remove these issues. We can get more knowledge and information through reading newspapers, magazines and blog posts of famous writers and authors. We can improve our imagination and thinking process by reading mystery novels and stories because such books run on imagination where we can imagine the next scene or incident, thus giving us the platform to think creatively.

●   Improve Vocabulary and Hone Writing Skills: Reading aloud removes hesitation, boosts confidence level, fluency and correct pronunciation of our vocabulary. Through loud reading, we also listen to our own voice and pronunciation so automatically our mind gets practised to correct the words. If the more we read, the more words we gain and we will improve our vocabulary. It makes us always ready to take part in the debate, speech, and writing competitions. It will nourish our mind power and finally, it helps us in writing and improves our language skills as well.

●  Boost Memory Power and Concentration: Reading is the best exercise for our mind, stimulates our thinking power and strengthens memory. Reading various novels and story books can improve our concentration and memory status. If we read daily, our mind will become habitual for it. It also keeps our mind healthy, strong, and active. More we read, the more we learn and it keeps our mind fresh all the time. Science has proven that reading can prevent Alzheimer’s and Dementia because it stimulates our brain functioning.

●  Removes Stress: We all have faced some kind of stress, be it from the workplace or personal relationships and reading a well-written novel serves to deviate our focus from meaningless stress and can lessen its level.

                  Urmila Rathore

The Fabindia School, urd4fab@gmail.com

We are reading Matthew Raggett's book How your child will win in life.