You never know what could make you smile. Some of the biggest chunks of happiness come from the smallest pies of life. The most unthought-of reasons could make you believe in the power of simplicity!
- A bunch of colourful gas balloons waiting to escape the grip of the vendor bobbing in the air as he plodded on the street
- A perfect family of four, with the eldest member dressed in loose brown khaki shorts, colourful floral shirt, with thick glasses and an equally thick frame supporting them, silver hair and a thick silver moustache, other dressed proportionately funkier to their age, clustered at the edge of the road and waving out fervently to the rickshaws
- 1.06 GBs of evergreen songs by Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar amongst others
- Mining a particular song I fell in love with thanks to the special singing abilities of a particular fellow commuter in the suburban trains
- Lectures getting cancelled when it was least expected
- Biting into a mayo-chicken roll and biting into it yet again while the minced chicken and the liberally added mayonnaise blended and melted in my mouth.
- Looking at old snaps and laughing over how time changes everything from waistlines to people themselves!
- Reading funny stuff about zodiac signs
- Receiving a Fortune Cookie that said “You are the greatest person in the world”
- 8 hours of sleep at night
- Good food, good ambience and a great friend for company over dinner
- Realizing that someone can sing and can really sing well
- Surprising people by excelling at things that were never my cup of tea
- Shaking a leg in the privacy of myown room knowing perfectly well that none’s watching
- Knowing that I was missed
- Listening to old numbers in a restaurant from an era almost forgotten
- Bringing home a pile of crisp ironed clothes
- Walking in a shop that houses aassortment of pastries, cakes, cookies, biscuits, breads and other confectionaries – little pieces of heaven!
- Inadvertently spotting someone you long lost touch with and beginning a conversation
- Admiring a celestial wonder
- Getting a hair wash in a saloon