come anyway.....i won't miss it...

Greatest pleasures are in the simplest things……. Proved…..at least to me….and what about you ??? Have you seen grass….one may exclaim…what a stupid question…and when I tell how beautiful the grass is…. one may become sure of my stupidity…and decide to avoid me next time…. There is a reason to it… many of us are so much wrapped in the ‘synthetics’ of life that they can hardly see those simple pleasures …they are more happy faking them-selves….but the grass is just one freeware among the n number of those free and simple pleasures….

Has one ever felt the smile on one’s child’s face (if you have one)….the happiness one derived out of that free to air smile…. I am sure one must have…...do they feel the same ecstasy on a street child’s smile…which is so similar to one’s own child’s smile and its equally free too…. I doubt, many of them not….probably they have zoomed in their world to a narrow tunnel…zoom out, I say, and savor the simple things scattered around….

Let me share a story ….

The other day I was loafing around the phoenix mill compound at lower parel in Mumbai with one of my friends….we shopped…some real, some window…it was hot, so we stopped at an ice cream vendor outside the mall…. As we were enjoying our ice cream, an apparently poor lady (she looked a labor) in her thirties stopped at the ice cream vending trolley…she had a few months old infant tucked to her lap and a five year old boy holding her hand….she bought an ice candy stick and handed it to her son and paid the vendor…the feelings on the boys face clearly expressed that the mother has made his day….she too perhaps wanted to savor the luxury…so they kept licking it turn by turn…the child seemed too generous to share it with her mother….the infant in her lap was watching her mother and brother curiously…the mother sensed it and got him the taste of his (perhaps) first ice candy…the infant was so happy licking her fingers….as it was shared by them, soon only the stick was left…the boy didn’t seem fully satisfied….and kept licking the stick….and perhaps not happy that his mother shared too much of it…by the time we too had finished our ice creams…at that point something struck my friend…and he asked me…shall I buy him an ice cream….oh…definitely…that will be the greatest thing of the day, I said…. He asked the child…do you want more, he smiled and nodded…his mother perhaps could’nt say anything….my friend bought him an ice cream….. the child was more than happy….his eyes thanked my friend….my friend was more happy than the child…I could see it…and we were off from there soon with all our shopping….but the boy’s ice cream weighed heavier than all those shopped bagfuls worth a few thousand rupees….

Its more than two years….I still cherish that evening….and try not to miss any chance to savor such simple pleasures ever….come anyway……