Why was Sridevi unhappy?

I was in shock the night I read about Sridevi’s death. It was tragic and heartbreaking that she was gone, because I had been a child when my Dad and I had fallen in love with the ridiculousness of “Himmatwala” then loved “Mr. India”and “Lamhe”. Years later my daughter had succumbed to her charms and loved “English- Vinglish” so that’s 3 generations who loved Sridevi.

And over the next few days we saw the media and people obssess all about her passing and turning her demise into a media circus. Radio channels discussed her supposed marriage to MithunChakraboty and the TV channels even came up with a headline like “Khooni Bath Tub”. Everywhere you went people began gossiping about her personal life, her “unconfirmed” surgeries, her so called health issues. This statement appeared in every conversation again and again, Sridevi must have been so unhappy. So much talk, so many words spoken. None of them respectful or considerate or accurate.

Was Sridevi Unhappy? Nobody knows and it is nobody’s business.

But it leads me to ask, is it possible for someone so beautiful, accomplished, talented to be desperately unhappy?

Yes. Happiness does NOT come from having talents or being beautiful or being famous. To quote Success Guru Tony Robbins “Progress equals Happiness”. Only if you are “progressing” in life, be it in your health, finances, relationships, only then will you be happy. If you stop making any sort of effort into improving your life, eventually you will succumb to indifference or stress.

“Because of Indifference, One dies before one actually dies”- Eli Weisel.

You must have something to look forward to, to make an effort towards, to feel like you’re adding to your life – not in materials or money necessarily, but a sense of being better than yesterday or a month before or 6 months ago. Talents or beauty are god given, but making an effort to learn or improve skills, changing damaging behaviour to productive behaviour, attempting to serve people, provide them with a service that improves their lives is the way. The process of building, creating, adding, improving, giving joy is the only processes that lead to success and happiness.

So we will never know what really was going on in Sridevi’s life, but for the rest of us who believe that someone should be happy because they are rich and talented instead of being ambitious and skilled, please understand only when you enhance consciously what you have, will you be able to see the magnitude of your own possibilities.

So learn, absorb, consume, construct, work, focus, practice, fail, despair, repeat, push, train, etc.

Use these words for the best Success in your life … Ever.