happiness is... (version 1.0)

- offering prayers, 5 times a day, on time, consistently over months…years

- working with a crazy team (the wolf of old broad street)

- sleeping after a grand breakfast at 11

- honesty and frankness

- taking afternoon naps shamelessly

- grease in my hands

- biker holding my hand when crossing the road

- setting up an out of office

- pronouncing croissant correctly

- carrying so many books from the library that my arm hurts

- being inspired, being an inspiration

- teaching

- chotu capturing bombay rains and sending over digitally

- seeing my three bros fussing over ammi

- experiencing humility

- being excited to come to office on a monday

- being called a goal digger

- twisting the throttle

- mango kulfi

- dirty trainers

- friday and grocery, house cleaning, movies

- washing the car with biker

- an old b-school mate’s random three word email

- right colour of gosht ka masala, perfect consistency of rice in biryani

- being made fun of in a whatsapp group of three (biker and chotu being the other two)

- knowing that trash song from 90’s and singing it loudly in the middle of oxford street

- finished the lowland, on the white mughals and ogling joseph anton on the book shelf

- being asked to serve gutthi to a biker's friend's new-born cos the grandparents want the kid to be like me

- talking to ambitious independent youngsters (as young as 18-20) with absolute clarity about their career path and on it already

~~~they tell me i can’t buy happiness, but they never said i can’t steal it :)

alhumdullilah