Small Mercies

Small mercies, tiny joys that are always there, we're just too busy to notice sometimes :)

• raindrops sliding down the windowpane in the cafeteria.
• smiling to yourself like a buffoon on readin Deb's email right in the morning.
• imagining him in his kindergarden night suit and laughing.
• reading an inherently sad book and feeling like life could've been worse, uttering a silent thanks that it isn't.
• having someone who knows you so well that your heart brims over everytime you realize it.
• having to take a holiday and making shopping lists.
• dreaming of drops of heaven dipped in butter.
• recovering from sudden bouts of nostalgia and pain, and smiling at the irony that is life.

Essentially the whole world around can crumble to sand, leaving you all alone to gather the dust; the beautiful chapters of your life can suddenly catch fire and be burnt to ash, leaving black soot on your hands and your heart; all can be completely wrong and you can feel like the deliberate victim of some cosmic conspiracy; but even then these lil moments fly by like errant strands of hair in the wind and all you can do then is thank God for the small mercies in life. :)