Sit back..relax..hear the drops of rain gradually fading away..see the weather turning to yellowish orangish pink and then to darker shades of blue and black..with little lightening and dazzling..sounds of the birds chirping and coming back to the trees..people getting back to their daily chores after the rain..completely ignoring the feel of getting back to normal from something extraordinarily wonderfully awesome that has just happened..
Me..closely observing the movement of every tiny drop..for even a teenie weenie droplet becomes sad when it feels ignored..Small things in life are as important..the first time you go out with someone, the day you fell off the stairs in the college, the way you just fell off the couch laughing at a family joke, eating the mac n cheese you made on a Sunday afternoon, listening to odd music, symphonies that others don't understand but you feel are the closest to your heart, the light that glows on your face when there's a light in your mobile..saying "1 New Message", the doorbell that rings just when you are expecting a special guest, the one moment when you leave the kitchen and the milk spills, the fragrance of a familiar perfume that passes you by in the crowd and you can't remember who used to wear it.. A number of things that go unnoticed make a difference whether you know it or not..
Remember the last time you smiled without a reason and someone noticed and smiled back at you? The last time when you danced in the rain? The last time you heard a kid laughing and accompanied him just because you couldn't possibly control the laughter? The last time you rest your head on someone's lap with their warm palm on your cheek? Those are moments of pure joy. That usually are not very noticeable but are making differences within us that change us as a person and that are never known by us. The change is happiness.. These little things gradually make us happier from within. This is the best kind of happiness: Its called Happiness Inside Out.
Happiness that begins from inside and reflects outside, that is not as conspicuous or outstanding, but is the best for emotional health as i call it. :). That's why People look their best not when they smile for a photograph but on something that makes them happy and the smile comes from their hearts to their eyes through their lips, lips being just a medium. Sometimes little things make a larger effect than bigger ones, though its not that prominent.. Its just Inside Out.
The detail. The detail of a falling leaf. Every twist and turn of a dancer's feet. The tinge of yellow that makes red orange. The lightest sound of dropping tap water that awakens you from deepest of sleep. The drop of lemon that totally changes the taste of a recipe. The thinnest line of Kohl that makes one's eyes look brighter. The small four letter word that changes lives upside down. The gap of camera click that makes or breaks the making of a beautiful picture.
Small things matter. Ignorance of small things matters even more.
"Small things matter. Ignorance of small things matters even more." .. What a nice way to end the article, very promising!!!"... And yes, small things do matter, because once ignored, they gain big importance, and 1 day they come out, they are expressed, just like this article of YOUR's.
ReplyDelete"The last time you heard a kid laughing and accompanied him just because you couldn't possibly control the laughter?".. Wow!! This has happened to me, feels funtastic.. :-) :-)
You have captured some of the beautiful moments of one's life, moments that didn't strike a cord when they actually were taking place, but eventually as the age grew, they gained their value, nowadays called as NOSTALGIA.
" symphonies that others don't understand but you feel are the closest to your heart.." 100 percent convinced, So i am not the only person to whom this happens :-):-).
Also your article plus that picture of sunset (or, may be sunrise :-) ) is creating an all round effect, which makes me remember a song. "zindagi, kaisi hai paheli.., kabhe toh hasaye, kabhe ye rulaye.."
hey :) thanks a lot for always reading whatever i write..n that too completely..feels so good to have someone read properly and to know that i'm not the only one to feel this way :)hope it doesn't look as amateur..n actually this article started from something else and reached somewhere else..just kept writing whatever i felt was always noticed too late by me..and the picture is of a sunset..also very special and nostalgic to me :)
ReplyDeleteThe reason i like YOUR articles is because YOU write natural. There is an Indian flavour in YOUR writings, which co-relates to me.
ReplyDeleteAlso it feels happy to know that i made somebody happy today. And that too a stranger.
Happiness multiplies when you share it :-)
Hey that sunset pic is so soothing!!! Gud resolution..!! Which location is it??.. So less crowd..
ReplyDeleteyes mr stranger :) m happy too..to make a stranger happy just by reading my amateur work :) thanks..u inspire me to write more and better
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