Day 3...
It's a Sunday morning. My mind says that I should be the proverbial beached whale....doing nothing. (My love for food and the uber-sized nightdress certainly help the 'whale' feeling!) I have nothing to do today, except stuff that I LIKE to do.... Sunday morning snooze is definitely called for.....
... Except that Micky wants to be dropped off at Marina Barrage. He has signed up for some Amazing Race kinda team building stuff with his colleagues. I pretend to be fast asleep...hoping he will take a cab! Wicked! Then I decide to at least give him a coffee. (perhaps I would feel less guilty!)
He takes the hint, gets up and gets dressed to go to the race. He needs to reach an hour earlier as one of his teamies has dropped out and Micky has to reach earlier to inform the race guys. Of course!
Micky is one of the nicest, selfless people I have met. This was one reason I fell in love with him! But the love takes a bit of a toss when the 'wife' starts to wonder if all the world's problems are ours! Someone steps out of a race and Micky (with me in tow!) has to sacrifice an hour of his Sunday to sort it out! (There are five others in that team btw.) Starting to get a bit cross...
...but I just can't. How and why do you get cross with a person who is being nice to someone? He is a rare breed and his 'niceness' seeps into me. Ah well, I can always drop him and come back for a snooze.
Micky is delighted (and a tad surprised).
We drive off to Marina Barrage....... in silence!
Micky and I often wonder how and why we got together! He loves running, I love sleeping! He eats to live and I looooove my food! He listens to the BBC! And I must start the day driving with happy music. I guess had we matched horoscopes, we wouldn't have got married. In deference, he quickly puts the BBC on mute the minute we get into our car. :) And well, I am in a compromising mood, sort off, so I don't put my music either.
The grumps change into a thankfulness as I see sunlit east coast trees, clean and green after the much awaited rains. It is good to be alive! Thought 1 of the day ........ Thankfulness leads to happiness!
I suddenly catch my reflection in the car mirror. Gosh! I have the serious look and I remember my friend who calls it a Mrs Joshi look! Right, I should smile. It is a forced smile to start with, more to do with complimenting my sartorial emotions, than my happy emotions! But it works! Forced smile leads to a spontaneous smile soon.
Thought 2 of the day ........Sometimes you need to invite happiness... and then hold on to it!
I drop Micky, wave goodbye and I start my spotify. Bliss.
As I drive down the traffic-free, green, beautiful Marina Barrage road with Bakhuda... a different set of emotions takes over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpq9tm0gnTM&feature=kp
I do not come home straight and drive off further down the East Coast. Love the smoothness and the power of the Audi. Think of the last few days and the new vistas of possibilities.
Freedom, Love, Happiness, Power, Thankfulness........... a roller coaster of emotions.
In love and loving it!
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