Don Bosco’s name and character are synonym with joy and cheerfulness. “God loves the cheerful giver”, is one of his cherished quote from the scripture. St. John Bosco was a cheerful lad right from his childhood. He understood well that happiness is an inside joy and made himself joyful, happy and cheerful all the time in spite of the hard condition economic and family condition he found himself.

From his early childhood his joy consisted in making other people happy. He learnt many skills and tactics to live happy life and his happy life made others happy. Little John’s happiness consisted in living a sound moral and spiritual life. When he was only seven or eight years old he had a great ability of keeping around him many children of his age or even children much older to him. He played with them, prayed with them, and taught them to live well. After playing exciting games filled with joy he would come home with brushes and scratches in his hands and legs and his mother urged him to stop such games and avoid children who play violent games. But little John would entreat his mother, “Mother, please do not stop me from playing with them; because when they are with me they behave well and they do not do anything that is immoral that you yourself have taught me to avoid.”