HAPPINESS IS IT WORTH IT.........

Yeah you heard it right chetan bhagat the writer came to my alma matter as motivational speaker today. Wonder how much people want to motivate us. Though i didnot bother to go there . i was busy watching FRIENDS ,,,,yeah you heard it rite FRIENDS i love it. I heard he was talking about passion wonder .how much passion is right for doctors. Imagine a cardiothoracic surgeon while operating suddenly gets passionate about painting.But on the mess table i just happened to have a candid conversation with a friend about happiness .It was a very light conversation intended just to sit through that tasteless dinner. But then back in the room on a weekend and practically nothing to do it got me thinking what is happiness  . Is it a goal that you achieve. Or is it something that is written in your destiny. Is it a state of mind . Yes it is but is it a voluntary state of mind. Can you plan to be happy . Can you decide to be happy . you can just hope. A number of people these days are suffering from psychiatric diseases  , majority of them are depression and a few bipolar disorders of mania and depression. So do these people plan not to be happy. Would not be the case everyone wants to be happy ... you see...then why are we not happy...remember those times when we were kids and that one toy given to us by someone would make us gaga. And when we were not kid but still in our childhood that one match we won in cricket would take us to cloud nine for the rest of our weekend..ofcourse girls had their strange ways of being happy Barbie dolls and their strange games.

But now laughing gets difficult . Being happy has to planned. So people have ambitions to make them happy. But think honestly achieving something can make you happy. Can a good future make you happy. May be you didn’t get that one thing you desired .desires is it desires those tantalising desires that make us unhappy or the fear of not getting them or rather still the fear of getting them and losing them because nothing is immortal. mortality is it the fear of growing old which makes us unhappy. Life is a moderate play with a poorly written third act you see....there can be many reasons for not being happy. But there has to be just one reason to not be unhappy{i mean happy i am just playing with the words}and that is to make sure that people around you get to be happy because of you. That thought that you are the reason for so many smiles. No matter how let down you are you push others up thats the whole point of human existence.

Happiness is not something you can plan or desire it can not come with a good future, better present or a beautiful past. Its something that will come to you when you stop being sad. Its when you decide to sleep peacefully stop worrying. So good night  . Have a great Sunday and seriously Monday sucks.....

dream : a poem

Ever woke up wondering u could have slept more because u were witnessing something special .Dreams are a funny phenomemon. medically they are thought processes during REM part of your sleep.some people dream with eyes wide open.some peolpe keep dreaming all their life sweet things that they can never have. some people always have nightmares . wonder whats going on with them.

Actually dreams has a funny way of telling  u cant have something It will show you the most b"ful lie andjust when you are about to make the last leap forward it will pull you back and throw you away but once in a whilelife will surprise you . all your dreams will come truelife is all about waiting for that moment{offcourse you should work hard for it}lerishing them and cherishing them thereafter.

there is a poem  i wrote during my ophthal clinics..........

I saw a dream today

It soon flew away

It was 7 in the morning

The alarm bell was ringing

With eyes wide open

and a bit unsteady

 Realising i had a class

i pulled out of bed and got ready

I was so unsturdy

wide awake and still dreaming

my friend said   

i was never so nerdy

he never realized

it was the wall and not blackboard that i was staring

I took the rest of the day off

the dream was so b’ful that i gave it a thought

I wished everything i saw

 would be for real

But in reality there was

nothing to satisfy my zeal

Then came evening

i went to play

But i was drifting

drifting away

Out came night

i decided to calm myself down

To swim out of the thought

that had me drowm

I thought of taking the alprax

that was there on my desk

But then it came into mind

dreams have a meaning so deep

It is not what u see at night

it is what doesn’t let you sleep

some things unspoken part 1

Human mind is the most fascinating and intriguing thing god has created. Just think you close your eyes and you can see everything that happened long before or that hasn’t even happened. Ever gave a thought how much knowledge your brain accommodates   , obviously if you want to. One of these fascinating aspects about human brain is placebo.

Placebo. It is one business venture where the input is zero but the output can range from minimal to a great extent. It is the least understood aspect of medical science. Let me first define it for the nonmedical people reading this placebo has a latin origin which means “i shall please”. It is a substance or procedure that is objectively without specific activity for the condition being treated.In one of the randomised controlled trials in which treatment for a chronic condition was tested there was an overwhelming response to a new drug. It was later found out that it was nothing but saline. The response may have been due to peoples belief in the newer drug .if this inner healing system or placebo as it may be called is properly exploited, i mean its biomechanics deciphered it can lead to medical miracles in the treatment of chronic diseases like alzheimers, parkinsons and may be some day cancer.

Its not just medicine where placebo works . you may   like to use a different term .but the power of human brain is much beyond healing. Ever wondered how great athletes keep stretching until they finish their job even after they are injured. people who believe in themselves end up performing better than those who are doubtful of their capabilities .this last line brings me to an important term nocebo. Its just the opposite of placebo. Patients who don’t have faith in theie treatment have apoorer prognosis than those who believe in theirs. YES I CAN just by saying this to yourself and not anyone else increases your efficiency by 10%.

One of the biomolecule blamed or rather held responsible for placebo is endorphins.Endorphins are a funny group of chemicals..you cant purchase a morphine from the market without doctors prescription but you can always purchase it from your body to get that inner happiness. Exercise , some kinds of food like chocolate and love{some people may disagree with love giving happiness} all cause a spurt of endorphins release .this is what makes people push the limits.

God fearing people call it his blessings, medicine calls it the inner healing power, some call it fate and i call it.....forget it a rose would smell as sweet call it anything.just believe in yourself and go for it. dream on .good luck

P.S.

1.dont let everything to placebo. let us doctors decide the gravity of your medical condition whether to live it to fate and placebo or intervene.

2. don’t overestimate placebo. You cant run a city marathon just because you tell your brain you can.