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Feeling blessed and grateful as I notch up a unique century!

Even as my 100th Conversation comes up on Saturday, April 13th, I am marveling at the magic and beauty of Life.AVIS-on-Happiness

 

These 100 Conversations are special for a few reasons:
  • all of them have been non-commercial
  • they represent the most consistent effort in Chennai to curate and host live, reflective, Conversations on Life and Happiness
  • they have featured a whopping 164 guests in 4+ years and
  • they have been curated and hosted through the darkest time of our Life – for Vaani and me!

To be sure, our 11-year-old bankruptcy endures; a phase that has often been marked by long spells of worklessness and pennilessness. Yet, each of these 100 Conversations has been therapeutic; each has helped us to learn, unlearn and share Life lessons.

When I hosted my first Conversation on January 22, 2015 with film critic Baradwaj Rangan (while starting the #BlissCatchers Series), Vaani and I never thought this effort would go on for 4+ years or that we would end up bringing so much consistency and focus to it. We loved the opportunity to do something in line with our Purpose of “Inspiring ‘Happyness'”! And we said, “Let’s go be useful”! Success was anyway eluding us – we did not have work or money. But we were learning a lot through this challenging phase in our Life. And all we wanted to do was to share our learnings. But what happens when you do something selflessly, when you do what you love doing, is always beautiful. That’s perhaps why we have come this far, ready with our 100th Conversation on April 13th!
Until our Conversation Series’ came up, there wasn’t any similar effort in Chennai. There were panel discussions and Talks, but there were no explorations of lived experiences and of Happiness through live, reflective, Conversations. Our initiative over these years has, we believe, helped whoever has been touched, realize that Life must be faced, no matter what, and that you can – and must – be happy despite the circumstances.
Statistically, our 100 Conversations have featured 164 guests in all, between Jan 2015 and April 2019, across 47 #BlissCatcher sessions, 4 #happynessconversations sessions, 22 #UncommonLeader sessions, 20 #ArtistsSoul sessions and 7 #HeartofMatter-HC sessions. All of these 100 Conversations have been curated by Vaani, alongside me, making the journey truly memorable for us.
None of what we have done may have been possible without the support of our venue partners and, of course, thanks to each of our 164 guests who agreed to be in conversation with us and share their lived experiences, to make our world a better, happier place!

So, as we host this 100th Conversation, Vaani and I are soaked in gratitude – we will remain eternally grateful to Life for this transformational experience; without the bankruptcy, we would not have understood that Happiness is really being non-worrying, non-frustrated and non-suffering, we would not have set out to share this learning with our immediate circle of influence: through my Blog, my book ‘Fall Like A Rose Petal’ and through our Conversation Series’. 

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My 100th Conversation in the April Edition of #thehappynessconversations, features a beautiful couple, Manu & Karthik, and celebrates their love for each other and for Life!
Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on April 8, 2019April 8, 2019Categories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags AIDS, Art of Living, AVIS 100, AVIS Viswanathan, Bankruptcy, Baradwaj Rangan, Dr.Suniti Solomon, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Heart of Matter, HIV, Inner Peace, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, Life, Love, Lovesick, Loving, Non-frustrated, Non-Suffering, Non-worrying, Odyssey Bookstore, Spirituality, The Artist's Soul, The Bliss Catchers, the happyness conversations, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, The Uncommon Leader, Uncategorized, Vaani, Vaani AnandLeave a comment on Feeling blessed and grateful as I notch up a unique century!
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