Reflections on simple things in my life !!

I was totally jobless today!!! So thought of constructing my next thread.

Here it goes!!

I got a question in my mind when I was sitting and staring @ my monitor

Do I have any big or great things to achieve in this lifetime? Silly me, for sure I don’t have any such things.

What I term as big great things here , It could be a grand wedding day, earn the first crore in my profession, and become the CEO of the top 5 company in the world, or things like that.

Well, there is no problem of wanting to achieve all those big great things in life. However, the real problem is that I feel i am trying to fast forward my life hoping to reach there the next moment and want to enjoy the results and not the journey.

So, the small little things were always termed as insignificant. But now I realize that most of the big great things were achieved through humble small little things. We always hear that a million miles journey begin with the first step but how many of us found the real essence of this statement.

I feel the answer is none as far as I have known!!!

I believe life is in the small details. Ongoing small gestures can mean so much more than one grand display of love and things. Simple pleasures throughout the life can be far more gratifying that one amazing end. When I connect the dots between all these little joys, life seems fuller and more satisfying.

Sometimes I tend to overlook many funny and exciting things,  because I  have felt the activities are small and sometimes it’s because they are strange or seem unfeasible to the average person.

But now I want to enjoy all these little things in life, when I look back I may realize they are big things.

Here is my bucket list of some unconventional things which I want to do in my lifetime and these little things that fill me with bliss.

Here’s what I’ve got so far:

• Adopt a small child and contribute to education of the child anonymously.

• Spend a week vacation with my parents and brother.

• Support my wife in whatever she chooses to do

• Have a girl child

• To do stand-up comedy in front of my old friends.

• Have a conversation over dinner with a Dr Abdul Kalam (The only person whom I have respect as a politician).

• Dinner with Rahul Dravid!( This is a childhood dream)

• Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once).

• Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month

• Should learn to play a piano with some degree of skill.

• Spend a whole rainy day reading a great novel.

• Should learn to juggle with three balls.

• Attend one really huge AR Rehman concert

• To create my own web site.

• Catch a ball from the stands of MCG.

• To visit Lord's cricket balcony and take a snap with an Indian cricketer.

• To run a marathon

• Look into my child's eyes, to see myself, and smile.

• Publish a novel.

• Ride a bicycle again in streets.

• Use my powers to make a major course difference for at least one charitable effort.

• Make a great, well recognized 2-3 minute short video with pics taken from my childhood to till date.

• Organize all the photo albums that I have.

• Host a real radio show as a RJ.

• Learn Hindi.

• Make love with my wife on a forest floor and kitchen floor.

• Sit in a dugout of a world cup game and watch the match along with the cricketers.

• Go outside and dance in a rainstorm.

• Write an article for a newspaper or magazine

• Watch the sun rise and set in the same day.

• Wish to cuddle in bed in the morning. A body pillow isn’t quite the same as someone you love, but sometimes it just feels good to hold something in your arms.

• Want to hear music, when I want it. Pull out my iPod and enjoy.

• Want to write a hand-written letter to someone I know in person.

• Want to wear a sweater straight from the dryer on a cold day. If I can push a button, this simple pleasure can be mine at any time.

• Wanna do something so funny such that it makes me and my friends laugh out loud (But not in LOL form)

• Want to live without email, IM, or even cell phone for a week.

• Want to stomp grapes at a vineyard.

• Wanna do all my favorite things from childhood: Skip rocks, build a tree house and go fishing in a pond.

• Ride a gondola in Venice.

• Learn to salsa dance

• Go snorkeling in a shipwreck

• Scuba dive in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

• Go white water rafting.

• Go on a Royal Caribbean Cruise and an Alaskan cruise

• Ride in a hot air balloon.

• Go paragliding in Himalayas.

• To do bungee jumping.

• To go on a canopy tour in Costa Rica (traverse between trees on a zip line)

• Go on trekking trip in Kullu Valley.

• Go for a snow skiing in Himalayas.

• Do a spiritual retreat in the foothills of the Himalayas

• Stay at the Bellagio for a day.

• Play casino in Las Vegas.

• To visit New Zealand

• To visit the Paris and Italy.

• To see Mona Lisa painting in Musée du Louvre in Paris

• Spend a fall in Prague.

• Stay in Mauritius for a week with no connectivity.

• Hike throughout Santa Monica.

• See the snows of Kilimanjaro before they completely melt.

• Live in London for a significant period of time.

• See Mt. Everest with my own eyes

• Go on a date for a week with my wife (in Las Vegas during Christmas)

• Live in NYC for a season

• Visit Richard Branson’s private isle in the Virgin Islands.

• Watch the Orca Killer Whale Watching from San Juan Islands.

• Climb the Eiffel Tower.

• Stay in Goa for a week with my wife.

• To visit "The Hollywood Wax Museum" in Hollywood CA.

• To visit Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt.

• To take an African Safari.

• Watch bullfighting in Spain.

• To enjoy several nice wrist watches in my collection including Omega, Breitling and Tag heuer.

• To buy my own house and then spend time making it into exactly what I want it to be.

• Own a Mac Book Pro.

• And while I’m at it, hook me up with Audi A8L edition

• Own a Honda City ZX.

• Ride on a cabriolet

• To buy my own Nikon D90 camera with 18-105mm VR lenses.

• Set a Mini library in my home with collections which attracts me best.

• Buy a Bose home theatre and install it in my drawing room and watch movies by sliding in ma couch and drink pina coladas.

Ahhh thats enough, So many details....so much to do! Not much time to update now.

At some point I’ll organize this as nice as thread but not now. It already took me a week to write this post !!!