PEEPAL FARM
Happiness Happens
Robin had everything he wanted and more-well-settled in the US, financial freedom, married to the love of his life-except he was not happy. It was in his pursuit of happiness that he stumbled across purpose. It eventually took giving up on happiness and pursuing purpose before he realized that he had finally found what he had been looking for.
This is a book about what happened between him exiting his tech company and starting Peepal Farm-an animal rescue centre. It is a compilation of all the answers he got along the way and the questions he asked to get those answers. He still can't tell you what is life, or why is life... but he can answer why to live and how to live.
Happiness Happens is ultimately an exploration of what really makes us happy. It is Robin's journey told simply, with the hope that it will reach people who are dissatisfied with how they have been living but haven't yet been able to figure out how else to live.
About the Author
An ex-hacker and ex-techie, Robin Singh today runs Peepal Farm, an animal rescue and awareness organization that helps animals heal and be heard. He lives on-site in a mud house, grows his own food and brews and sells Kombucha.
His bumpy career start in 1997-hacking Internet accounts and selling bootleg CDs-had landed surprisingly smoothly, when a misspelled e-mail landed him a job in the US in 2003. That same year, he started a technology service that helped tens of thousands independent artists sell their digital goods directly to consumers.
In 2010, with all the checkboxes checked on the societal template, he had a crisis of meaning of sorts, and he came back to India to try and be happy perpetually. It was his pursuit of happiness that put him on the path to purpose. It was eventually on that path where he stumbled upon happiness after having given up on it.