This is something I wanted to write since quite sometime.A few months ago, my friend & I had participated in an extempore competition by the ToastMaster's club in our office.While I cannot recall what my topic was,my friend had given a very beautiful perspective on her topic "Small is Beautiful".
"Small" since then has pushed me to my reflective mode. While dropping me to the bus stand for office, my father while looking at little girls riding their bicycles to school, told me "U know I sometimes look at them thinking that I might spot you among them". I was touched by his remark, indeed time had passed so swiftly. I remember the first time I had gone to school on bicycle, while returning I saw a tall person standing at a distance from the school gate, moving closer I saw it was my father waiting with a smile.
Drenched in nostalgia, I realized that indeed the "small" moment had brought with itself so much unconditional love & joy.
Another "small" moment was when I was probably in Std 6. My mom had promised to prepare dosa for me when I would return from school but due to some urgent work, she did not. I was not that kid who would nag for anything but if I decided to do or eat something, I had to the same day. So there was this ruckus in the house.
It feels too embarrassing to admit but I did cry for dosa in my childhood. My father had returned from office & just asked me to come with him. With swollen eyes, I sat behind his bike & we rode to the yummiest dosa joint of the locality.The experience had given me an insight on parents & their unconditional love for their children.
Now many years later, I just realized that in the midst of my dreams, my day job( a job that pays one's bills),my friends, my books & my tensions I had forgotten to acknowledge these small moments that had made my childhood so beautiful & special.
This goes to all my dear readers, no matter where you are, no matter how tensed or troubled you are, please try to create & treasure these "small" moments that you get with your loved ones.
The projects will come & go, the office politics will happen, the money which is less now will increase later, but these moments that you spend with loved ones will become your priceless treasure in times to come.
After all "Small is Beautiful" is not just applicable to a sleek smartphone or lap top always.
