Monologue 2

I am Happy!

I am feeling like shouting and dancing and telling the entire world that I am happy…just like that. I am feeling nostalgic, going back and forth in the beautiful moments of past. Definitely, I have the process driven “structured” corporate work but in between I am taking a chance to freak on the uncertain, unstructured beauty of life.

I smile by myself and keep murmuring poetic lines. Probably someone would think I have gone mad…let them think so. It’s better to be termed “mad” to remain happy rather than be “controlled” and remain unhappy.

The rain has washed away all that which was dull, sad and painful. A sudden change in climate has made me happy like never before. Sometimes, I think it’s so easy to be happy.

Simple things have such a healing power; one should just know how to cherish them.

Lost in a rainy day,
A child walked by himself
Splashing the puddles
And chasing the birds
Thinking of nothing —
Books, homework, school, and rules…

What he held was a tiny drop of rain
And memories to cherish in the innocent brain…

What he held was a beautiful ray
And lots of hope to face a gory day…

Lost in a rainy day
Without a mother, without a teacher
The child found himself
And forgot all that was gray…

June 6, 2008 (Madhuri Shinde)