Life's little joys
I just adore it when the world outside is shrouded in mist, fog and drizzly rain, and you're indoors curled up in bed under the covers. Everything seems right with the world in general and your life in particular. I also love it when (and I'm sure I've said this before) it's cold, wet and rainy outside in the morning, and you get up to go to school, only to realize that it's a Saturday morning and you have no school. That, I must say, is quite possibly one of the most beautiful feelings in the world. Apart from, maybe, eating a deliciously sweet mango, or hearing a baby laugh, or finding money you didn't know you had, or being kissed while he thinks you're asleep, or the smell of the morning after a rain, or ice-cream on a roasting day, or....ah, life's small joys. Someone emailed me a few days ago and told me (in a complimentary way rather than as an accusation) that if what I've written in idleThinK is any indication, I am an extremely cynical person...so this entry, I suppose, is a lame attempt to prove him at least infinitesimally wrong by trying to disguise my intrinsic cynicism with poignancy :P Won't work, of course. It would be like trying to camouflage a striped neon green pig with orange balloons. Well, it would be nothing like that. But it was a fun analogy. I was never very good at those things.
But anyway, I digress...it really is the little things that get you, sometimes. I wouldn't say no to a million dollar windfall, but sometimes even a dollar note folded in a certain way can make you feel just as good. Well......almost as good, although I think I'd need to experience a million dollar windfall to tell for sure. Any offers? No? Damn you. Well in that case, feel free to share your life's little joys with my comments link.
[09:52PM Update] Photos from last night's dinner party up. It was a funny funny night.