Say, Cheese!

There’s this uplifting emotion I’ve been keeping to myself lately, these soaring spirits, this bliss, this gratitude for everything around me. I’m inspired, I’m excited- today, I’m happy. You know those musicals where a person’s happiness is so much that it can’t be contained and he bursts out into a song and somehow everybody joins in, today that seems plausible- very doable! Run in the streets with a maniacal smile, a high screech of excitement, arms spread wide and laughter, oh the laughter! It makes you giddy, lightheaded, and breathless. You forget composure; you forget that your face is oddly contorted and that you’ve essentially loss coherency, that moment when you’re a child again and that moment that calling it happiness doesn’t cut it and you refer to it as ‘felicity’ instead- sounds about right.

Here’s to those moments, when during the progression of a book you come to a part that sends a chill down your spine, when you read it over and over again and almost out of breath stop to think of the implications of the words, when you find famished excitement in your interests, when you wake up to the tune of a song that you know will be on repeat all day long. Here’s to the time when you find in yourself the courage to be wild, and at the same time to tame yourself at a point where chaos was imminent, to the instance where you, emboldened by the words of another or reminiscing a fantastical musing of your own, stood up and fought for yourself and faced a fear, to the perfect weather where the air makes you want to skip and whistle, to this feeling that nothing bad will ever stay forever and a happier time is just around the corner. Here’s finally to life, for being simple and funny and eccentric and to the perfectly ordinary day that is now etched in your memory for eternity.

(This one's for you :-) - thank you for everything)