How many times have you heard that the best things in life come free? Well, cliches are cliches cos they make sense each time! And nothing else fits better.
Have you ever admired a pebble on a river bank, rounded to perfection by the river's fickle waves? Or have you observed a monarch butterfly, fluttering about with flames in its wings? Or the time you just sat on a swing, surrounded by beautiful plants, swaying along with the gentle zephyr with a songbird for company? Sounds poetic? Well, thats what these things do to you. Even idiots become poetic.
Nature does have these treasures. But sometimes other things have the same quality too. Like the gratitude you experience when you wake up and realize you still have an hour to sleep! Or the sudden declaration of a holiday! Or the loud peals of laughter you and your equally boisterous friend just cannot control right in the midst of a really austere environment! Or even the time you gaze into the vastness of the ocean with that someone special, under a starry sky. These things are real. And these are the things that make you smile, these are the things you remember when you look back. So spend more of your time on these things.
Spend time finding these small moments, spend an equal amount of time reliving them, cos these are your true treasures.. something nooone can take away from you.
Maybe i sound like i have a pair of rose tinted glasses on.
Happiness is a state we all want to achieve. But the very concept is surely lost on someone who cannot find contentment, peace, pleasure, any of these or all of these in any of the things around him/her. You just have to search....with the right pair of glasses!
1 comment:
its something contrary to what she wrote but then again, whats the point in writing what she wrote
i talk abt the simple pleasures too, coz i am one of those people, who really do spend a lot of time in that, specially in my relationships, but my mind does wander so many more times to thinsg which are big, things which are expensive, things which are materialistic in nature, and i do yearn for them. thats where the human mind looses its indentity. of course, i come bak to my simple things, those are things that i can afford, things which i can keep, and keep forever. i love them.
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