Scene:1 Trying my best to blow hard into the piper…watching the bubbles float in the air….. And bursting them with a soft ‘POP’ sound! This is by far my best childhood memory. Blowing water bubbles…with the filter piper. I am 22 and I am not ashamed to say I still love doing this. My SP friends laughed hard when I said I’d want to buy one at the beach…but heck! I think that even when I will be a mother I’d still enjoy doing this with my kids. :)
Scene:2 A roadside florist sitting with a basket full of carnations, roses and lilies. Pinks, Purples, Whites and Reds. I am talking here about the beauty of ‘one’. A single flower over a bouquet and a simple yet tender one over a magnificent present. It is the thought which counts not the size of the present. Ah! Too much time spent over appreciating the beauty of the flowers….before I hear the annoying guy friends screaming ‘’Cross the road will you!!’’ ;)
Life is simple…it is we who complicate it! :) You would be like wow it’s not like we don’t know the truth behind this statement and it is definitely not the first time we have heard this but we being the humans we are, we love to repeat the the same mistakes over and over again. We develop complexity in various forms. Sometimes in the form of building castle size expectations, sometimes by worrying too much about what lies ahead and sometimes by nursing the pains of the past.
Woh kehte hain na “ Arrey bhai jab bhagwan ne dimaag diya hain soochne ke liye toh kyun nahin uska istamaal kiya jaye!’’
True cent percent true…and also old habits die hard. With age, with education, with growing interaction and with each passing day…I am becoming more of a servant of my mind than anything. Every single step requires me to want more, to choose between things and to judge people. In short life has become so demanding that instead of sitting back and enjoying the moment, I am always busy being ‘busy’.
Anyways, each one of us can’t do much about this, can we? And I think we have gotten used to this pace of life and tomorrow again we will be yet again engulfed in the daily chores and ticking against the ‘to do’ items on our lists. But still in remembrance of days like today…when I did nothing but mindless thinking by the seaside… looking at the waves and the cool breeze blowing away my not so tidy hair. A day which brought a content smile on my face. And it is for moments like these that I realize Life when simple is more surreal and beautiful.
