The best way to gain happiness, as all the religions speak, is the service to human beings.  If you servce your fellow people, you will automatically derive a lot of happiness out of it.

When you love any one whole heartedly and kindful to them, there will be a natural reward for you in form of true joy.  The more you love, the more your heart blossoms. The larger it blossoms, the more happiness it can hold.  But by just saying 'I love entire world' or keeping your love without expressing is no use to anybody.  You should express your love through dees of kindness and service, which pays you back a lot of joy.  By serving people, you will get a lot of gratitude for them and it fills your heart with a lot of satisfaction and happiness.

When Prahlada confronts with his father, Hiranya Kashyap and says, 'God is everywhere', the egoist father furiously orders him to show in a pillar.  As Prahlada prays to God, from the pillar the Lord Vishnu comes out and kills Hiranya Kashyap.  This story teaches us that God is everywhere.  He is in you, in me and in every living being.  So serving every human being as much as you can is nothing but serving God, where you can derive yourself a lot of happiness that you also made God happy.  And you can see the help you provided to others also working well.

When you want to serve people, you also should help those who are really in need and require help. For example you can not buy costly gifts and give it to the beggers, thinking that they do not have it.  Beggars need good food, clothes and shelter.  If you can help them by providing any one of these, they definitely feel happy. What you give, gains real value only when you give it o those who can never get those.  If you give a toy to a poor child, he really enjoys it and you can also have the pleasure of the child's enjoyment out of your gift.

We always be ready to serve people.  Suppose if you are going to office and you find a person injured on the road in an accident, call to you office and get permission to help the poor guy, who is need of treatment.  Call to ambulance and ask help of others on the road to rush him to nearest hospital.  Do not think that I have to go to office, there are so many people on the road, who can help.  If everyone thinks so, there may be a life threat to the injured, so do not neglect your opportunity to help.

Service to people is service to God.  Thinking of serving people itself is a thought of divine.  But these divine things, as opportunities will not come whenever you want.  You have to get those.  Whenever you get you should not miss them.

I have many friends. They all are very good boys. But vinoth is my best friend. We study in the same class. We go to the school together. We sit on the same bench. Vinod comes to our house often. I also go to the frequently. His parents love me and respect them. My parents also love vinod and he respects them. We help each other at studies. He is very good at mathematics. He helps me in mathematics. I am good at English. So I help him in English. We sometimes do our homework together.

vinod is very neat and clean in his habits and dress. He always puts on simple dress. He never tells a lie. He is good singer also. He is talented in Carnatic music. He taught me some basic lessons in carnatic music such as sarali varisai, jandai varisai. Our teachers like him very much. He gets many prizes in studies and singing. He also takes part in dramas. He is very good in everything at the school. Vinod is very obedient to his parents and teachers. He never gets punishment from his teacher. He is also in good books of the principal of our school. He gets many prizes every year in academic and sports.

Vinod is a good player of football. He goes to the school ground every evening in order to play football. He is better player than I. Vinod goes to the temple every day in the evening. He takes me also along with him. He is an ideal friend for me. I am proud to be a friend of him.

People generally prefer town life to country life. For life in a town has many advantages.

Town life provides many conveniences and comforts to the people. There are good roads, modern houses and good sanitary arrangements. There are big shops and stories, large hotels, good hospital etc.

We have cinemas, music concerts, sports clubs etc. in towns and cities. There help us to spend the evenings pleasantly.

All the colleges in our country are found only in cities and towns. Polytechnics and other technical institutes also are located only there.

But city life has some disadvantages also. The town’s man cannot breathe pure air. The towns are full of dust, noise and bustle. So life in a town is neither healthy nor peaceful.

There are also many temptations in cities. Men are easily spoiled by them. Villages has some restrictions to avoid crimes. Villages has some fields to grow plants which providing food even rice.

Lastly, a townsman leads a mechanical life. He lies far away from nature. So he does not love the beautiful fields, woods, rivers and mountains. He misses the real joy of life in village.

I was promoted to the ninth standard and my father was transferred from my place. So I had to join a new school.

My father took me to the new school. We met the headmaster and give him the application from. He admitted me in the ninth standard.

The class teacher gave me a seat on one of the front benches. I am short in that age. This helped me to listen to the lessons well.

During that period, the teacher set an exercise in English dictation. I spelt all the words correctly and the teacher was very much pleased .

There was a short recess after the second period. At that time, the class pupil leader took me round the school and introduced me to his friends.

During lunch period, my classmates shared their lunch with me. I also gave my dishes to them. Some girls in my class also spoke with me.

In the afternoon we had mathematics in the first period. I was not able to do many of the mental sums. My knowledge of mathematics was so poor. I decided to pay much attention to that subject.

After the school was over, we have compulsory games. We were asked to pay football. I played well and they praised my skill. I was much delighted.

Then I ran home to tell my parents of my experiences that day.