One fine morning, I received an SMS from a friend. It said: “Most of us miss out life’s big prizes- Nobel, Oscar, Grammy’s; but we are all eligible for life’s small pleasures- a pat on the back, a hug from a best friend, a glorious sunset, a silent night on a terrace, a slow walk on an empty road with the person you love the most. So don’t worry about missing life’s big rewards. Enjoy its innumerable tiny pleasures.”
How simply put, yet so profound! It set me thinking about how we set our sights on grand rewards all the time. Ask a mother what would give her supreme happiness and the chances are that she would say, “A hug from my son.”
Urban life, you may argue, doesn’t give enough scope to enjoy nature. Fair enough, but what stops you from enjoying the call and twitter of the bird in your window, the beauty of the carpet of gulmohar on the road in the evening, the pitter patter of rain and the heady smell of mud emanating from the parched earth-the simple unadulterated joys of life.
Why can’s we weave these innumerable little joys into the fabrics of our lives? Happiness comes in small moments of joys. We must snatch them and cherish them. They may seem ephemeral in nature but nothing stops us from freezing the moment in our mind and replying it over and over again, much like wordsworth who wrote, ‘The music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more.’
That is the spirit of life. Either tackle or forget those little irritating things in life without letting them make you worried. Let your worries be buried by your joys that you can “produce” by being just a little more imaginative.
Life throws up more of good moments than bad ones. All that is required of you to grab the opportunities. Smile and the world will smile. So, go seize the day and enjoy the gift of life!
4 comments:
hey di well written yaar...mast hai...mba nahi to writer ban jaana......;)
Short but sweet and straight to the point. Enjoyed it :)
or in subroto bagchi's words....I'll just say....GO KISS THE WORLD....:P
Well written.....
When I was young, I believed
that one day my life might
unfold in an orderly way,
according to my hopes and expectations.
Now I understand that the
Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward, following God’s gravity toward the
Great Sea of Being.
My journeys revealed that the
Way itself creates the warrior
that every path leads to peace,
and every choice to wisdom.
And that life has always been,
and will always be, arising in Mystery....
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