Little joys that add to the glow of a sunny day:
1. When the pilot of the flight turns out to be a lady with loads of wit and charm, informs us of the speed of the aircraft in terms of fraction of speed of sound, invokes freezing point while mentioning temperature and then laughs before simplifying everything in layman terms. Makes me wonder how it would be to know this female, would she have a bright kid and lots of such conversations with him? Or a boyfriend? Little curiosity that would remain unanswered!
2. When the randomized playlist in my 2000 songs library shifts to a bright cheerful song in perfect sync with the mood of the light romantic book I am reading.
3. When the air-hostess asks me about my willingness to act responsibly in case of emergency because I am sitting next to the emergency exit, like for the n-th time in as many flights. I just say that I can't lift a 15-kg door on my own and I'd expect her to rush to me first thing in case of emergency, just to share the load. She just gives me an angry look and walks away mumbling what seems like a curse to the cheap flight rates.
4. When I read of some mushy moments in a Nicholas Sparks novel and just before cynically trashing the fiction I realize that I have actually had a similar experience at a certain point in my life. I close the book and start making a list of all such 'too damn good to be true' moments. The list is impressive. I feel lucky despite the chunk of screw-up all those moments ended in to.
5. When a co-passenger reading from his Kindle opens a Vikram Seth poetry e-book and I successfully peek and read one full poem. Feels like stealing harmlessly :)
6. When I am motivated enough to complete a sunny note in the middle of a flight. For the two scary punctuation marks that I had in my life in the past 12 odd years, I realize, I had many such sunny moments day after day, year after year. The realization is therapeutic.
#I am on my way back from Neeraj's wedding at Patna and I feel like sending him a card: 'Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence.' Will do that after the fool is back from Bali. The wedding was actually a fun event.
1. When the pilot of the flight turns out to be a lady with loads of wit and charm, informs us of the speed of the aircraft in terms of fraction of speed of sound, invokes freezing point while mentioning temperature and then laughs before simplifying everything in layman terms. Makes me wonder how it would be to know this female, would she have a bright kid and lots of such conversations with him? Or a boyfriend? Little curiosity that would remain unanswered!
2. When the randomized playlist in my 2000 songs library shifts to a bright cheerful song in perfect sync with the mood of the light romantic book I am reading.
3. When the air-hostess asks me about my willingness to act responsibly in case of emergency because I am sitting next to the emergency exit, like for the n-th time in as many flights. I just say that I can't lift a 15-kg door on my own and I'd expect her to rush to me first thing in case of emergency, just to share the load. She just gives me an angry look and walks away mumbling what seems like a curse to the cheap flight rates.
4. When I read of some mushy moments in a Nicholas Sparks novel and just before cynically trashing the fiction I realize that I have actually had a similar experience at a certain point in my life. I close the book and start making a list of all such 'too damn good to be true' moments. The list is impressive. I feel lucky despite the chunk of screw-up all those moments ended in to.
5. When a co-passenger reading from his Kindle opens a Vikram Seth poetry e-book and I successfully peek and read one full poem. Feels like stealing harmlessly :)
6. When I am motivated enough to complete a sunny note in the middle of a flight. For the two scary punctuation marks that I had in my life in the past 12 odd years, I realize, I had many such sunny moments day after day, year after year. The realization is therapeutic.
#I am on my way back from Neeraj's wedding at Patna and I feel like sending him a card: 'Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence.' Will do that after the fool is back from Bali. The wedding was actually a fun event.
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