NOCTURNAL EXCHANGES WITH GEORGE
‘There’, she said with a dimpled smile, ‘That is life. You find joy in small things. If you go out looking for joy saying ‘O, I am going to have fun today’ you may return with nothing. It’s the little things that spread constant joy.’
Mulling over the beautiful generalized statement that my friend had induced out of a small experience, I realize the beauty of the truth in it. Happiness comes in micro bouquets of joy and you end up smiling to yourself every single day rather than going through volatile periods of peaks and troughs, maximas and minimas, joys and sorrows. It is truly the small things which matter.
Thanks George!
Induction
is a wonderful thing, it makes you go from the specific to the general. (No,
not the society inductions but logical inductions as opposed to deductions).
Little experiences here and there may light up your life in a scattered
fashion, but a general statement on what makes one happy can be
thought-provoking and can make you see the trend in all of it.
So,
there I was, narrating to George-my friend about how I was exceptionally
ecstatic today for no particular reason, and that I had laughed A LOT, for
LONG… in a rather hysterical manner with my roommate. Petty things had made us
double with laughter, released endorphins in big bouts until our cheeks and stomachs
hurt.‘There’, she said with a dimpled smile, ‘That is life. You find joy in small things. If you go out looking for joy saying ‘O, I am going to have fun today’ you may return with nothing. It’s the little things that spread constant joy.’
Mulling over the beautiful generalized statement that my friend had induced out of a small experience, I realize the beauty of the truth in it. Happiness comes in micro bouquets of joy and you end up smiling to yourself every single day rather than going through volatile periods of peaks and troughs, maximas and minimas, joys and sorrows. It is truly the small things which matter.
Thanks George!
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