Home – the feeling of it.

I read a beautiful piece yesterday on how one is not 100% happy all the time. Rather joy or the utter feeling of it comes in moments and it’s these moments that stay with us a while. Here’s some moments that belong so completely to me, they are absolutely and wholly mine :o)

• Waking up to the pitter patter of rain on my window…

• Stealing 10 minutes of us-time with my hubby in the morning sipping Pudina chai , no words spoken…

• Discovering $10 in the back pocket of my jeans…

• Hubby surprising me by buying Coca Cola cos I have cooked Pav Bhaji and it is my absolute favorite combination :o)

• Noticing another couple dunk their croissant in coffee in a fancy Paris café, I smile at my hubby and then we proceed to do the same…

• Reading a Nora Roberts and thinking I am exactly like the female lead (prettiness and the works)…he he he…

• Tipsy happy conversations around math and philosophy…after two glasses of wine…and the memories of it the next day :o)

• Simple words of appreciation from my boss or a co-worker on work well done…

• Discovering by fluke that the awesomest bagel shop in all of NYC was bang opposite our hotel…

• The innocent toothless grin from my friend’s 2 yr old, especially while she clutches my hand…this one just topples my heart over :o)

• Wearing matching Wonder Woman and Supey tees with the hubby to comic con…

• Front row seats on the upper deck of a double decker bus roaming around the city, especially when it rains…

• Rains!!!! Anytime of the day!!! Rains!!! I love rains, it washes out every little bit of low and negativity from my soul…

• Co-incidences, the good ones, like when I am missing someone, and they ping Hi…

• Hugs!!! I am big on hugs, not the sideway ones, the really big warm bear hugs that squash me with love…I can proudly say I have received some exceptional ones…

• Seeing snow for the first time!! I will never forget that feeling! Ever!!

• Exchanging knowing glances with a bestie, Oooooo…the secretive ones :o)

• Having an aha! Moment where all the jumbled up, messed up thoughts just sort of fall in place, in a jiffy…

• Super sweet and sugary icing on a cupcake…yum…

• Pure unfiltered love in any form – a friend filling my wineglass with his own in the split second my hubby looks away, another one mussing up my hair in like a protective big brother way, cutiepie of a girlfriend massaging my head seeing me in severe sinus pain, another one pushing her hubby out of the room to sleep with me cos I used to be scared sleeping alone (ghosts!!!), an out-of-touch college friend pinging to say she misses our sitting-on-the-roof-with-a-faraway-look deep conversations, yet another sort of just-got-back-in-touch friend saying she will buy me organic natural soaps (I love!!!) from her trip to Morocco…this is an endless list…

These just fill my soul with waves of happiness and a sort of glowy contentment, like feeling immense joy, safety and love all at once, kind of like how I feel resting my head in my mum’s lap. That’s what these remind me of – Home, the feeling of it, in random places, with random people.