Saturday, December 15, 2007

The best things in life are free…

…Or don’t burn a huge whole in your pocket. For instance:


1. The smell of freshly cut grass.

2. Walking on fresh dew early winter mornings.


3. Curling up with a nice book and hot-chocolate on a rainy afternoon.


4. Talking the night away with your best friends.


5. Making perfect rotis for the first time.


6. A child’s laughter or smile at something you said or did to make her happy.


7. Getting wet in the first rains of the year and tucking into piping hot bhuttas, coffee and pakoras.

8. Singing to yourself when you drive to work.


9.Basking in the full moon’s light, which floods through the windows of your room.


10. Playing on the swings you barely fit into.


11. Burying you feet deep in cool sand.


12. Waking up to your favourite song.


13.Meeting an old friend with whom you haven’t stayed in touch.


14. Having your mother fuss over you when you are ill.


15. Watching a cricket match on TV with your family and friends.


16. Waking up before your alarm rings and realizing that you still have 15 mins of sleep.


17. Reaching the end of a torturous trek, the exhilaration at enduring the rigours and finally making it to the top, where the view is breath-taking.


18. Visiting a place for the first time and being mesmerized by it.


19. Having your parents narrate their childhood tales.


20. Your culinary ventures being mistaken for your mother’s.

Feel free to add to the list.