The "Happiness" List

Life has been hectic and difficult over the past couple of months!! Don't you wish for those days where you could lie in bed and hope that the world forgets that you even exist!! Well, I do .. and to be honest, I feel that way quite often! I don't know what makes me happy. I feel like I do know, but in all reality, I just do not know.


Does it take the moon and a piece of Planet Mars to make me smile?? Is it really that difficult? This thought just struck me when a certain friend of mine asked me if little things ever made me happy? Of course it did!!.. Lil' lil things always made me happy...(why did he even ask me such a question? I can't stop thinking) He doesn't seem to notice my annoyance at his question and goes on to ask me what exactly makes me happy. Now, knowing me and all my thrills and frills in life..the list should have been endless, but on the contrary, I was blank and had absolutely no idea!!


So, here I am..just thinking and (thinking hard, mind you), about all the stupid, lil, trivial, silly, big, small, warm, yummy, tasty, weird things that make me happy...


Well, here it is! I proudly (and fondly) present my list of things that make me finger-licking, feet-tapping and finger-snapping happy!

• The smell of the wet earth after a long and dry spell.
• Raw Rice!! (Small portions of it :))
• Tuffy Kutta

• Baby feet...that are so pink, you could just chew them up! 
• Any four-legged creature that has paws, a tail and doesn't talk human language.
• A warm cup of filter kaapi on a rainy, saturday afternoon.
• Sunshine, sand and the water

• My old grey-ankle socks
• Arthur Hastings and Hercule Poirot :)
• Driving in the rain

• The Land at the top of the faraway tree!
• Pazham Pori and Chaya ("Tea" in Malayalam) 
• A nice, warm, loose sweater.
• Surprises - well, happy surprises! 
• Sharing the same swing - with your fav cousin

• Joshua a shopping expeditions!! :P I can laugh until I have tears in my eyes.
• Pretty feet!
• Anthony's apple pie!!
• Productive Outcomes of boredom - stone painting :)

• Reading a book during a train journey
• Onam get-togethers with family where Amma and the Ammai s decide to dress up same same 

• Chocolate Cake Dough (the finished one, just before you put it in to bake)
• 'In HariharNagar' 'Akare Akare' and 'Nadodi Kattu.'
• Cheese Burst :)
• Sunday morning sleep...no no..actually Saturday morning sleep
• Calvin's Quirky quotes!
• Playing Cards with Velliachan and Velliachetan (and Velliachetan winning every single time)

• Amma's marshmellows and the process of making it.
• Achan, Amma, Chat and me together in Munnar!! :) With Tuffy also
• Mustangs and the "dhudhak dhudhak" hoof sound
• Tinkle Comics
• Crosswords and jig-saw puzzles!!
• Appoopan Thadi (Don't know what it's called in English)

• The feeling of the wind in your hair while you're on the swing (Tired and Tested. Verdict: Out of the world feeling)
• Listening to a default playlist and being pleasantly surprised when you bump into an old favourite.
• Going through old photographs. 
• Mojari's
• Snow Globes - I can look at them for hours! 

• Lazy saturday afternoons
• Colourful Glass Bangles 
• Nandhini s mini meals with ghee
• Pranks
• Embarrassing Chetan and that "Shy-Is-Coming" face of his

• The feeling of doing NOTHING!!
• Baby eyes and puppy eyes and doggy eyes in general!!
• Happy Endings!