My Secret Santa

A week before, we celebrated 'secret santa' in our office. It is this time of the year which I enjoy the most. Being from a conservative Hindu family, as a child, I never knew anything like 'secret santa' or stockings and the gift' wala concept. Hence, this celebration drove me crazy the very first time I celebrated it. The excitement of the bringing a gift for someone(secretly, a really tough task for me!!) and anticipating a 'gift' from someone has always fascinated me. More than that, the guessing part of it, who would have brought the gift for you :) 

 Though this time, it was a bit different. It started with the epitome of excitement as usual. I bought a gift for my 'Santee'. It was all cool till the time everyone started looking out for the gifts with their names on it and opened their respective gifts. I loved this. Due to certain circumstances, I had to miss out on all this. For me the fun part was helping people guess their Santa that day. However, some folks were not happy as I spoiled their fun of guessing the Santa. 

Cool, said I. I kept silent thereafter. I began with my work. A busy last week of 2017.

However, I could not somehow digest the fact of someone stopping me from getting the only happiness of the day when everyone else had their own share of happiness, getting their gifts and  a chance to guess their Santa. Only thing I was enjoying in the process, somebody just refused me to do that too..That day, I was already missing a friend of mine a lot, cause he never failed to get me smiling.. And then with this state of mind, even this small incident was just enough to sadden me :(

With this short, not so exciting incident in my life, that day, I got a wonderful life lesson. It was,

'People would never understand what you are being through, only you can.. You just can't give the key of your happiness in someone else's hand.. You have to be happy by yourself..'

Taking this lesson, I decided to be my own secret santa :) I gifted myself some wonderful gifts thereafter :) Hopefully, I will continue to do so in this entire new year :) I hope everyone else too does the same :)

And just to let you all know, I got my gift from my Santa later and a beautiful one :) Along with a promise of yet another one ;) So eventually, with the key of my happiness in my own hand, a happier me was left with three beautiful gifts while welcoming the new year:)