Happiness lies in the small things we overlook
I was standing under the rain. The tears in my eyes kept flowing muddling with the water droplets that were perpetrating the act of hiding my tears; to much of my liking though. I remembered everything. The moments we had shared together. The way he had proposed me, the time we had fought with each other, the time we had spent in each other’s arms. Every memory was live in my mind as if it all had happened yesterday itself.
He had left me. Left me dangling on the corner without a reason to suffice my incessant queries. I did not know what to do. It felt like my world had come crashing down. He just left me without a reason. May be the reason was clear right from the beginning. May be I was too blind to see that coming. Maybe I had already seen it but decided to treat it as unseen.
Whatever it was, I was shattered to the core. I felt depressed. I did not feel like talking with anybody or engaging in the usual activities girls my age do. I felt hollow and empty. My nights were spent crying and the day was all gloomy.
But what was the purpose? When I took control of myself (and that was a good three years time
), I felt like I had wasted all these years crying for somebody who simply did not care, someone who was not worthy enough for all I had given him, someone who did the best by leaving me because he was not the guy for me.
I felt like I had missed those little moments of joy that have been around me forever. I did not care that my mother had retired from her duties. I did not care that my father got another promotion. I did not care that my younger brother had topped his college. I did not care that our maid had given birth to a beautiful girl.
But I was a fool for not noticing. For me, happiness meant him coming back to me and embracing me again. That never happened and that was not the ideal happiness we need in our lives. We keep waiting for the big things to happen while we forget that the little things do matter and they can definitely make you so much happy.
I learnt my lesson the hard way, but you can learn it without losing much. Cherish the small moments and make the most out of them, kya pata kal ho na ho?
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