The Gift of Today – Enjoy it with Tea and a piece of cake

Yes, my pastime when I was a collegian was tea and a piece of plum cake with my favorite Mills & Boon novel. It used to be an absolute delight and pleasure reading those and most of my friends will second me on this. When we are young, there were fewer worries and problems to be sorted out because we had someone to take care of all those. As we grow up, times change, the priorities and responsibilities change. We grow up and so do our problems. Amongst all this tamasha and the daily buzzy life, we must not forget one thing, the desire to live happily (irrespective of the small irritations that come and go) , the smile and the laugh because this is what makes TODAY wonderful.

When we turn back or rewind our life, we will surely be able to relate to all those small little things of yesterday which we may have ignored to see or would have unknowingly skipped, overseen…. I remember as a school kid and even in college, I used to love watching Chitrahaar and Chitramala because those were the only 2 programs that most of us used to wait for.  Even thinking of those and speaking about those small moments of happiness, bring a smile.  I feel happy rewinding those memories of walking down to college, eating vada pav, chatting with friends etc etc. There are a lot of small moments of happiness which get lost in this busy life, please catch up on those, these are wonderful moments. Capture them in the form of pictures, videos and few years later when you see them, you will feel so wonderful.

Recently, my daughter was checking out few pictures to make a collage for a birthday.  We literally ransacked the bag of photos and photo albums.  We finally got a lot of pictures and I am so happy that we have a lot of photographs with beautiful memories(I must say). These pictures of yesteryears took us down memory lane and it made me so happy and believe me the sense of satisfaction looking at those pictures made me feel so so happy.  Pictures of family, new borns, birthday parties, outdoor picnics – the list is endless.

I looked at those pictures and told myself “Oh my !!! Did I actually look like that?  Such are the beautiful moments of yesterday which were

at some point of time TODAY.  So make your Today beautiful and when you look back, you are going to smile and say, yes, it was beautiful and it will always remain.

Bye for now

Luv and blessings always!!

Rekha

p.s.

I am reminded of this wonderful dialogue of the late Rajesh Khanna from the movie  Bawarchi, directed by Hrishkesh Mukherjee – Year 1972-  It is so simple to be Happy but so difficult to be simple. The dialog made me think then and it still makes me think!!!

Take some time out, once in while jog through the collection of your old pictures and photographs.  I bet you will smile …..