There is such pleasure in organizing things. I always feel like I am clearing some clutter and organizing things in my head along with the things I am organizing around me. By the end of the entire exercise, I feel at peace and satisfied. Another beauty of organizing, finding out things that are buried somewhere - maybe in dust or maybe under some pile of books.
Yesterday, while organizing, I found a book called "
Simple Ways To Manage Stress", which was passed on to me by my dad. Looking at its green and blue cover, I was transported back to the day when I was maybe 10-12 year old:
It was a hot summer day. My summer vacations were going on. That evening, dad had handed me some A4 sheets along the book and marked couple of pages that had some pictures. I was supposed to draw and color those pictures in the sheets that he had given me.
I remember drawing a farmer with birds over his head and a conversation bubble over his head. There were some more similar simple pictures that I don't remember right now. All that I remember is that I was having fun drawing them and then coloring them with my precious rainbow color pen set (I still have them. In working condition :D ).
He later told me that they were for his presentation at office and that his audience had understood the presentation better and interacted during the session because of the pictures that I drew. I do not know how he presented it in the conference room without using a laptop and a projector (I will ask him, once I finish this post), but when he told that, I felt so proud and pleased that I could help dad out with his work. Remembering this, made me happy.
Simple pleasures and simplest of acknowledgement were all that I needed when I was a kid. Reflecting on the memory, I feel it is still the same, even when I am all grown up. I still thrive on the simplest of pleasures and simplest of acknowledgement from the people that I love and care about. This is what that still makes happy.
Relationships might not be easy. I might not have lot of experience in this area. But looking back at this memory, I realized one basic thing - Acknowledge the person and the person's efforts for you. Respect each other. Love without any boundaries or limitations. Elementary things. Simplest of simple things. But these are the things that matters the most.To me, to you and to everyone! This is what makes us all happy.
I still do not have the answer to "What is happiness?" but now, I can feel and understand what makes me happy. Must focus on it. Like
Charles Bukowsi said, I must keep finding things that I love and let it kill me.
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