smile.

we were in the car, talking about inane things.
my dad and i were having a fight over the pair of shoes he was wearing.
i spent half an hour in the morning brainwashing him, explaining how the brown ones looked dorkish and that he ought to wear the black ones.
he brought up the topic again and so, yes, we were "fighting".
it is best to skip the part where my sister or my mother would pass some extremely out-of-the-blue comment and we'd all be in splits.
that is my family.
but, we are deviating from the topic again.
so, yes, there was the fight.
we were somewhere near 'elite' (it is this perfectly snobbish but otherwise useless gift store) when my mother suddenly went all straight faced and said
"PEOPLE DON'T SMILE ANYMORE".

the ass that i am, i commented that sensex and dow jones is not really giving anyone a reason to smile, and hence, people don't smile.
*duh*
and yes, WE obviously did start laughing after that.

it was after the laughter died that i caught myself staring outside the window, gaping at the world outside.

people keep talking about how things have changed.
how people are too busy to see around them.
but the sun is still shining, isn't it?

is it that difficult to smile?
and not be troubled for a while?
to love the life given to you?
and hug and love yourself a bit too?

there are problems.
we all have them.
but has taking them seriously and worrying oneself about it ever really helped anyone?

haven't we all lied down on our backs thinking of a life where things wouldn't be this difficult?
where we could be the way we liked without anyone making an issue out of it?
without having to worry about what your boss would say about your behaviour.
without having to think about how your friends would react to your day's clothes selection.
without having to care about the world and its ways.

we all want a life like that.
only that we don't realise that we can have that life if we reach out for it.

you can never relate to your boss because you don't want him to relate to you.
you don't like him because you don't make yourself likeable to him.

you think about your friends judging you because you never understood your friends.
your friends would love you even if you turned up at maddox during durga puja wearing your halloween costume.

you care about the world because you keep yourself away from it.
be a part of it.

you think too much.
you need to feel a bit more.

life is a long journey.
only that we have very little time.

breathe.
laugh.
shout.
cry.
hop.
skip.
jump.
trip.

this life is yours.
smile.