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Trick or Treat

“Treat”.
Every time I feel happy enough about my life to share it with one of friend,
this pertinent nagging term pops up. And then with utter shamelessness,
I delve into a debate on how insignificant the achievement is.
And this has happened so many times that I believe “treat” is the real “congrats”.
But often I wonder, why is a treat so important.
To start with psychologically, celebration is a vital part of success,
it imprints positivity of the achievement,
giving us a sense of permanence of good events over terrible times.
Most of the hard work behind success is not inspiring enough,
its only the joy after success which helps us pull through.
Thus associating success with positive feeling builds the necessary repertoire.
Not all of the reasons for a treat are personal. From social angle,
treat is a celebration of collective learning. Though our struggles get personal,
there is no point of success if you are the only one celebrating it. 
Not all times, we should reward people on whom credit is due.
At times, people need to be a part of our party just because they know us.
It forms a rewarding relationship for them, saves us from their jealousy
and forms a social bounce ball for us (friends to fall back on if things go wrong).
How did all of this start ?? I would say superstitious.
People would do a lot of things to save themselves from the “Buri Nazar”.
And that gives the community leverage to demand for a feast.
Feeling happy ??? “Trick a treat”

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