Take a moment to smile

With the world moving so fast these days and circumstances changing at every corner, moments are being lost.

While rushing to work and getting back home to feed yourself and then sleep with the alarm set, our lives nowadays is clockwork.

Even with the pandemic hitting 2 years ago, everything was helter skelter. It disrupted the clockwork functionality that the world had otherwise got used to.

There is work, all the time, from waking up to headed to the washroom to tidying up or washing clothes along with tidiously and tirelessly working for something that pays the bills.

We all do that, there no other way to this. the mere functionality of us humans is survival based on these very day to day routines we have.

Amongst all this and the whole bunch of other problems we all face day to day, we all in fact day dream and have those trips down memory lane.

So by this I basically mean that today I’m on the whole “You know there was this one time..” trip

These memories we have saved our beautifully tired minds, full of worry, need regular visiting. They can also go two ways too though. You either find those moments relive a memory and be grateful and happy and get on again with the usual clockwork or you can do the aforesaid and get really depressed about it and go back to the clockwork all grim.

But whatever it is, Those memories still give you that smile.

Come on now..

Did you just have a moment in your mind smile?

Well for those for whom that did happen ..kudos,, see one second of a smile is worth something I’d say.

For a child who is just ten or twelve years old, an interesting event or something out of the ordinary makes a great memory twenty years later.

There was this one time ...

Picnic day.. the elder packed whatever things were necessary, the food, the equipments, the basic necessitates etc etc. while we, the kids had to try to get ready on time, contain our over excitements, go easy on the munchies and maily behave.

There was fishing, however none caught on this trip, and we were allowed to enjoy the feels of it all.

While the eder sought to their business the kids ran around played ball got dirty and waited for the grub.

The ladies of the house, with all the equipment brought on the picnic did the cooking. The whole outdoor cooking gives a completely different feel doesn’t it.

Hardly remembering more specific details of this very picnic, my memory is stuck ont he journey back home.

My brother and I were always at the back of our Gypsys with the equipments and other picnic packed stuff. With it all came the leftover food in it.

My aunt cooks the utmost delicious biryani ever.

There was quite a bit of it left when we were all headed back home and like we all indian families do, the leftovers were to be finished for dinner by the time we got back.

Only this time my brother and I didn't leave much.

We sneakingly ate most of the biryani that was cooked at the picnic and by the the time the elders got home tired we did not leave much food for the rest.

The family had a good laugh at us two hogs though, and that makes my heart full.

It is a simple small moment I cherish till date and it does make me smile everytime i go back to it.

It might not seem something out of the ordinary for many but it is precious.

So taking in this moment with a deep breath and a smile on my face I would tell you to have these moments with yourself often.

These give us a reason to take a break from being clockwork robots and just soaking in a moment where you know times have been better.

Make so like a habit to pick out these memories from your special memoirs and pause for a little while just to gain that lost smile ..

Troubles will never end. The world will not stop. Work will never take a break, but you can and you should for these small little things are the boosters for our happy place in the present times.