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Zeena Singh

In Appreciation…….. of the simple pleasures of life…

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By EMN Updated: Aug 01, 2015 11:13 pm

Zeena Singh For  Eastern Mirror Sunday

Hello folks,

I believe that life has so much to give if only we cared to give a little thought to the most minuscule of joys (which we’d find so much of) only if we’d stop looking at the looming discomforts and discontents.
So here I am, to share with you the simplest joys in my life as I have experienced some time in my life and those that I take as I face each day, at a time.

Little hands
These past almost ten months have left me intensely thoughtful reflective and insightful as I find myself at the threshold of yet another phase of life when I have before me new lessons to learn.
This time round, it is lessons of life observed, perceived and understood from and through the eyes of a child; a child who has unfortunately seen, heard and experienced too much of the harsh realities of life much too early than she ever should have. As I interact with this young heart I am abruptly brought to the onset of certain altered transformed adjustments and amendments in my life.Little hearts, I learn, in all of their littleness are significantly large, insightful and highly sensitive, razor-sharp keen and watchful enough to be able to discern love, compassion, and rejection. They are like mirrors. Reflecting the precise image of what they absorb from their surroundings, confused and insecure when engulfed in unrest instability turmoil and chaos; happily confident, supple-ly resilient and all forgiving, otherwise. A smidgen of love, appreciative consideration, and thoughtful kindness is all that is needed for them to bloom.
I feel greatly blessed for the lessons I face today and share my appreciation as I try to focus on all the good this God-sent pair of little hands is daily helping me evolve into.
Together with which, I also just can’t help but beam as I share with you my joy in another pair of little hands.
I watch my tiny five- year-old neighbour walk right up to where my sister sits to put her wee arms across her shoulders stretching them as far as she can possibly stretch them, ever so gently to give her the daily dose of hugs she has for her.
My appreciation goes deeper, as this little expression of love I know comes genuinely from her tiny heart. No trace of a superficial ‘put-on’, the moments are usually just quiet ones irrespective of the scurry around her or even when there’s no watchful eye. Fully aware that no reward lies behind her little acts of love, no immediate effect or response no anticipation of incentive or remuneration makes it more so sincere.
On my sister’s lap, she’s often shared a few silent moments when she’s only just quietly laid her head. I am left to guess that both are comforted by the other’s presence.
As these small tiny hands even reach out to help my sister on her feet, hold it as she struggles to take her insecure heavy shuffled steps, very bravely suffer and endure a tight grip with hardly a flinch or wince, but a whispered ‘she’s very heavy’, my heart goes out in complete gratitude and a prayer of deep thankfulness that I am enabled to get a glimpse of these little moments of pure kindness and feel inundated with love and indebted to it.

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By EMN Updated: Aug 01, 2015 11:13:07 pm
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