True happiness only exists if it is shared!

Yesterday during the slow winter drizzle, i happened to pass through old Lahore. Underneath the balcony of an old decayed building, there was a dry spot and there lay a question for all humanity. On a worn out rug, wrapped in old and torn warm clothes was an old man. May be it was just the passage of time and the pain it had inflicted that made him old and worn out. But what's so special about this, we see this scene almost everywhere and walk past it. Though our walking past such people is a thought and discussion for some other time, but this man had something different. He was asleep, peacefully asleep even in the state he was in and cuddled with him were dogs! Stray dogs! Peacefully asleep with that man. It was as if all of them had a connection, they were all social rejects, not conforming to our ways and living in a world of their own. They were together and that is what all seemed to matter to them, to them may be we are caged souls not understanding their world of freedom. I wanted to wake him up and know his story but i just couldn't break that moment of peace and togetherness. I was also afraid, not knowing how he and his companions would react to my intrusion. I wanted to know his story, of how he had found rejection and neglect in a world full of humans like him and how he found togetherness and peace with these creatures. May be some other day i will try, i do not know if i will ever succeed to know his story, i am not sure of even seeing him again. Will he ever open up to someone, who is from the other side, the side he has long abandoned or the side that has long abandoned him. I do not know the answers to all these questions but in that moment i learned a lesson, we often take this lesson for granted but at moments like these we truly realize its importance. Whatever we have and no matter how much we have, true happiness only exists if it is shared!