Strength TogetHER 8 - Session 2

July 24th,2021.

Strength TogetHER is a virtual program facilitated by 'LOKOPAKAR', a youth organization that has achieved to provide a space and platform for individuals (especially girls and young women) to share their views, opinions, perspectives, experiences, their issues and find solutions to them.

On July 24th,2021, the 2nd session of Cohort 8 was conducted on the topic "My little happiness "with the active participation of 16  girls which took place via zoom at 5:30 pm. Our moderator was Anjila  Pokhrel but she couldn't join the session because of some unfavorable circumstances. So two members from Lokopakar (Prastuti Bhattarai and Samikshya Aryal ) joined us as our moderators.

 As our topic was “My little happiness “we discussed the little things that make us happy, about the smallest of the smallest things that make us smile.

 1.Our first speaker shared her story about her little happiness. She explained she found her happiness in every little thing like on cloudy days, a sky full of stars, moon, sunset and different patterns of clouds, also when she found a full charge on the phone early in the morning and when teachers were late during classes.

2.Our second speaker shared her story, as she gets happy looking at the mirror, when she can wear perfect eyeliner, on solving math problems, and when she can help others.

 3.Our third speaker shared how happy she gets when she can solve account problems, and how much she is obsessed with the Chiya notebook and her water bottle and also the perfect sky.

4.Our fourth speaker shared how she mostly gets happy through small things like a cup of tea during rainy days, watching the moon, whenever the internet works faster when someone listens to her. she also shared her story when she was scolded by her friends because of sharing a random post on Facebook.

5.Our fifth speaker shared how joyful she gets when she receives text messages from her favorite ones. She also shared her story when her friend helped her at the last minute during a stressful situation. The feeling of someone's presence for her and when someone is ready for her help to give her a lot of happiness.

 6.Our sixth speaker shared how happy she gets when she is in her room with music and a lot of food, especially noodles. She also gets in seventh heaven when a creator likes or replies to her comment on social media. 

7.Our seventh speaker shared her story of how fortunate she was when her friend texted her during an unpleasant situation. She also shared her story of happy moments with her friends and family.

8.Our eighth speaker shared how happy she was when she helped a child. She also shared her story with her best friends and explains how joyful she feels when they understand her. She added that in her lie synonyms of happiness is her best friends group which has the name #harsayasma.

      Our moderator  added up that “We don't need a huge topic to be happy. Happiness is hardly measured by the scale of load on us as even the smallest things matter for our happiness. But in the long run, while we are working on a bigger image we generally tend to forget those small little things and moments in our lives that make us happy”.

 In this process of knowing each other, the session provided a kind of homely warmth and didn't leave a minute where we couldn't relate to the talks. By the time we came to the end of the session, we decided to take a group screenshot. 

Written By - Anushka Devkota (Cohort Coordinator)