I am pleasantly at ease today. After so much anticipation on how the first day of the new year should be and would be, I must say am so much at peace. The usual humdrum at office, a quiet lunch, some mindless banter with friends, and a cup of the regular diabetic-killing tea. The bottom right of the laptop reads 01-01-2014 and I do not know why but that just brings a smile to my face as I sit here and type this post. Quite uncharacteristically, I came to office almost three quarters of an hour late, without any qualms or the usual rushed hurriedness about my walk, ambling at a leisurely pace, greeting all passers-by the usual new year niceties. More surprisingly so, humming to the tune of ‘Raindrops keep falling on my head’! So enthused since morning that I made a short trip to the nearest petrol pump just to get a whiff of ye’ old crude.
Unwilling to patronise and go the usual teenage girl route of OMG’ing everything, am just glad its not turned out to be a sore or spiteful day thus far. It really is something to be able to reply at the end of the day “my day, why not bad at all”. Its not a revelation or a resolution, not an appreciation for nature all of a sudden or the chirping of the sparrow ringing in my ear, but just a gentle calm that am basking in right now, a sort of placid refuge that I am overcome with.
It would behove me to carry on with such resolve throughout the year, but I dare not enter into such frivolous platitude for therein lies the biggest fallacy of expectation and disappointment. Instead, I choose to wind up this post here, ready to go out for another walk, content with having written a post during office time, striking something off that long-drawn list for once.
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