Happiness is Contagious!!!

As I spend most of time traveling (No I don’t back pack through the country. I am talking about the minimum 3 hours that I spend commuting to and fro office), I decided I would maintain a travelogue. I realized very late that I notice some very weird things when I am traveling and they amuse me so much that documenting it seems like a very good idea.

First installment

Yesterday was my first day “After Merrill Lynch”. Early morning when I was getting ready the world seemed like a bleak place. I still couldn’t get over the fact that I wouldn’t be working with my then team. It had been sometime since I had traveled in bus and the typical mumbaiya “Dhaka Mukhi” of public transport was not something I was looking forward to. As I reached my bus stand, the one from where I would always take my 7:20am 382 to andheri and to my work, I wasn’t even sure if they still run the bus on the said route. Yes it had been just 4 months but for me it almost seemed like an eternity. So I reached the stop and after around 5 minutes I noticed some very familiar faces. The faces of people I used to travel with sometime back. There were smiles of recognition; there were the typical bright “good mornings” …. Amongst all the chatter and the questions of where I had disappeared for so many months, we boarded our beloved bus. I was told that the bus still was as irregular as before and that the driver still was a pain. All smiles I walked towards my much-loved seat, the third row from the driver-the window seat out of habit and Mr. Kamlesh (incidentally has been traveling to L&T in the same bus for last 14 years) showed me to my seat with this sunny smile. The fact that he remembered touched my heart.

I looked out the window…. The same old buildings… the roads so often traveled… everything was still the same. And I grinned… yes I actually grinned because I couldn’t believe my silliness. The emotional fool that I was I so resisted the idea of change forgetting what happened 4 months back, this project in ML was the change. Today I was back to my old life. And I was resisting the idea of my old life, old schedule, old habits… this is what I was used to and I couldn’t understand why I was apprehensive about that…

Happiness and hope and expectations running through my veins… I saw what it meant to move on… to let go of the fears…. And look forward to another bright morning of my long life… The most humbling moment of my life!!!

Sometimes incidents like this make you realize how true happiness lie within you and it comes from appreciating what you have right now. My life still has meaning and purpose and that everyday my life touches or is touched in so many positive ways…

Keep living and smiling!!!