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Zeena Singh

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

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By EMN Updated: Dec 19, 2015 11:10 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.

The Nudging Tugs on the Heart

At this point in my life I give myself the dispensation of sitting back and reflecting on how I may have spent this first half of it. Was it squandered, frittered or conserved?
As I journey, I summon up recollections of my first key crossroad at which I encountered my earliest serious tug at the heart strings. Packaged with “what could I give my folks in return?” it created in me a restlessness and with it a lot of introspection which in return has given me considerable insight on it over the years. This thus adds up to one of my main reasons for making this appreciation of mine a highlight today.Countless following nudges and tugs have shown up on various occasions and passed on, compelling me to tag them as ‘passing phases’ for being as short-lived and inconsequential as they were.
I guarantee that there are many out there who are with me on this level, those who have obtained happiness of these pleasures and then again, scores who may be reading this, askance.
This nudge, that I’m talking of, is normally only a gentle tug to begin with, which often turns into a ‘wrench’ or a ‘heave’, one, difficult to walk away from or dispense with. Should this yank be a persistent one, you can bet your bottom rupee it’s there to stay till you act on it.
Many a significant milestone in my life has been created by deliberate obedience to the relentless nudging I’ve experienced, and have so far not (if hardly ever),had any traces of remorse at having followed with dogged certitude.
Let me not leave without mentioning that the prods I speak about don’t incline towards big lofty notions and thought processes alone but also set off sparks at the most ordinary low- keyed unobtrusive, mundane motions.
My reflection on this is that it cannot and should never be snubbed with a nonchalant approach. This view point of mine, subsequent to innumerable erroneous judgements and consequences resulting from my deliberate brush-offs to the heart tugs, lead me now to pay heed to the least of these prompts, to comply with directly, and as instantly as possible.
Time and the years school us, and I know that today I haven’t arrived where I should be, but am on my way there to yet sift, recognise, identify and accept the right nudge from the wrong.
With those who are tuned-in to my sketch attempt of elucidation and I celebrate, and for those who are yet to get a sighting; this is a preview of what the still small voice of God may sound like; the source of the tugs and nudges. There’s no boom no blast just a soft nudge that is whispered in love.
I Kings 19: 11-13 …And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire, a still small voice.
At this I’ll stay. Safeguarded and led by tender heart tugs and nudges.

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By EMN Updated: Dec 19, 2015 11:10:41 pm
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