Today I woke up at 430. First thing I do, is haul my self out of bed, and switch on the lights. I heard the 'tick' sound, but was still in dark. Hmm. I remembered. Last night it was lightning so hard, it might have made the trip switch off. I went there and, yes it was off. I pulled it up, and was still in dark.
I looked around. Usually my neighbors are up at this time, and I heard them talking, in dark. Duh.
I slept last night around 830, exhausted by a weary day of work. And the immediate thought came to my mind was 'this would be a bad day'.
I switched the flash light of my ever reliable Samsung Hero phone, and went to wash room. I turned on the tap, and water came gushing through my finger tips. I marveled at it for few seconds. Then I washed my face. I felt happy, peaceful. These things, electricity and water have become so common, and I hardly appreciate them. But these little moments, when they get absent, with out warning, we understand what 'luxuries' we have, unnoticed in the mad rush of life.
I sat down, smiling, " life ain't that bad ".
We left a bit early today, no cooking, aiming to eat out.
And when I came to Katubedda junction, the color lights were not working. Even with the thin traffic in that early hour, still people were mad, with out color lights. How many times have I cursed traffic lights before ? Huh. As I moved towards Ratmalana, I could see lights & colour lights in their glory. Oh how I took these for granted.
2 comments:
Yeah we do take life's little luxuries for granted. We do notice them when they are missing but when we have them back again we tend to forget them again. We humans are strange indeed!
Indeed we are. I guess it is due to rush of life, mostly - and we have inherent feature of 'quick to complain'
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