Sunday 22 March 2015

Happiness Is Underrated

  • Happiness is heading home after a year of staying away.
  • Happiness is a sinful cheesy pizza with Coca Cola.
  • Happiness is a "Pass" in an exam you knew you hadn't studied for.
  • Happiness is a clean pile of clothes.
  • Happiness is reading and rereading the scene with Professor Snape's "Always"
  • Happiness is walking to work and knowing you don't have to slog out an extra hour at the gym.
  • Happiness is the drunk time spent doing stupid sh*t with friends.
  • Happiness is mass bunking in college.
  • Happiness is mass bunking in office and going on a day's road trip.
  • Happiness is Agra ka petha.
  • Happiness is the warmth of the shining sun on a cold winter morning.
  • Happiness is watching an older couple hold hands and giggle together.
  • Happiness is watching teenagers do stupid stuff and realizing your own naivete at their age.
  • Happiness is food prepared by Mommy.
  • Happiness is watching your maid take charge of her life and educating her children.
  • Happiness is a day at work when the boss is on leave!
  • Happiness is watching the "uneducated" ground staff at work gleaming with pride at the prospect of signing their signature on the register on payday.
  • Happiness is samosas.
  • Happiness is when your brother has a larger collection of cosmetics than you and lets you borrow some!
  • Happiness is catching the local train on time. That 08:09 ladies' local is a must!
  • Happiness is a steaming mug of strong filter coffee and a book.
  • Happiness is when Lord Voldemort gets defeated.
  • Happiness is when my phone does that miraculous thing- it works.
  • Happiness is the satisfaction of having completed a book and not getting over it for a few days.
  • Happiness is shoes a closet full of shoes.
  • Happiness is largely superficial.
  • Happiness is when I am home alone!
  • Happiness is buying street children treats every once in a while.
  • Happiness is Coca Cola, Old Monk with a lemon wedge.
  • Happiness is a good run with the satisfaction that a large chocolate slab is definitely deserved.
  • True happiness is the state during childhood when you knew no hardships and lived a carefree life.
  • Happiness is a movie ticket for Rs.60.
  • Happiness is people sticking to feminism in its true form and not perceiving it to be man hating.
  • Happiness is equality in its true measure.
  • Happiness is getting your favourite songs on the radio one after the other.
  • Happiness is underrated.
Borrowed from A Borrowed Backpack:

1) Happiness is a break from cooking, when you cook for yourself three times a day.
2) Happiness is an awesome roommate.
3) Happiness is best-friend's wedding.
4) Happiness is just about manage to be served when the restaurant's kitchen is about to close.
5) Happiness is parents.
6) Happiness is siblings.
7) Happiness is food.
8) Happiness is the sound of rain-drops and a steaming mug of coffee/chai.
9) Happiness is 'salary/payment credited'.
10) Happiness is the pride in your teacher's eye, when you meet him/her after a decade.

5 comments:

  1. Happiness is reading blog posts as good as this.
    Happiness, at least today, is watching Citizen Kane for the 16th time, going into depression overdrive, and coming out of it to appreciate life in all its subtlety.

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    1. Oh, Akash, thank you! *sincerely hope that wasn't sarcasm!*

      Citizen Kane <3

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    2. I don't know why you interpreted my sincere appreciation as even hinting at sarcasm :P It wasn't.

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  2. 1) Happiness is a break from cooking, when you cook for yourself three times a day.
    2) Happiness is an awesome roommate.
    3) Happiness is best-friend's wedding.
    4) Happiness is just about manage to be served when the restaurant's kitchen is about to close.
    5) Happiness is parents.
    6) Happiness is siblings.
    7) Happiness is food.
    8) Happiness is the sound of rain-drops and a steaming mug of coffee/chai.
    9) Happiness is 'salary/payment credited'.
    10) Happiness is the pride in your teacher's eye, when you meet him/her after a decade.

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    1. Thank you :) Hope you are okay with the edits!

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